AMERICAN JOURNAL OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

Open Access/Copyright Policy

AJQR promotes the free exchange of knowledge by providing open access to all its published content. Upon publication of the manuscripts, they are freely accessible for scholars, students, or readers from all over the World. All the open access content of AJQR journal can be distributed in any medium within non-commercial use as long as the author and the journal are properly credited. AJQR supports The Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). This is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative definition of open access.

Copyright on any article is retained by the author(s). Regarding copyright usage, please see below.

Authors grant AJQR journal a license to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher.

Authors give any third party the right to use the article freely as long as its original authors and citation details are identified.

The article and any associated published material are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0):

Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0)

Under the principles of the ‘Creative Commons’, anyone is free:

  • to Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format

  • to Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material
    for any purpose, even commercially.

Under the following conditions:

  • Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

Click https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/  to find out more about it.

Copyright Usage

Any usage rights are regulated through the Creative Commons License. As AJQR journal is using the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), anyone (the author, his/her institution/company, the publisher, as well as the public) is free to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work as long as the original author is credited (see above). Therefore, specific usage rights cannot be reserved by the author or his/her institution/company, and the publisher cannot include a statement "all rights reserved" in any published paper.

This license allows authors to use all articles, data sets, graphics and appendices in data mining applications, search engines, websites, blogs and other platforms by providing appropriate reference.