Open Access Policy

Asian Journal of Qualitative Research (AJQR) is a fully open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal.

All research articles published by AJQR are made immediately and freely available online without subscription, registration, or payment requirements for readers.

Immediate Open Access

Published articles are made openly accessible immediately upon publication. AJQR does not impose any embargo period on access to published articles.

Readers can access the full text of published articles directly through the journal website without creating an account or paying a subscription or access fee.

Reader Access and Reuse

Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to, and reuse published articles in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons licence applied to the articles.

The journal's open access model is designed to facilitate the dissemination, discovery, citation, and reuse of scholarly research.

Author Access

Authors retain access to their published work and may share and disseminate their articles in accordance with the applicable copyright and Creative Commons licensing terms.

Authors may also deposit their published articles in institutional or subject repositories and share them through personal or institutional websites, subject to proper acknowledgement of the original publication.

Open Access and Editorial Decisions

The open access model and any publication charges do not influence editorial decisions.

Manuscripts are evaluated on the basis of their scholarly quality, originality, relevance, methodological soundness, and compliance with the journal's editorial and ethical requirements.

Open Access Licence

Articles published by AJQR are openly licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0).

The licence permits reuse of published articles in accordance with its terms, provided that appropriate attribution is given to the original author(s) and source.

Long-Term Availability

AJQR is committed to maintaining continued online access to its published scholarly record and to supporting responsible preservation and archiving practices.

The journal's archiving and repository arrangements are described separately in its Archiving and Repository Policy.

Open Access Commitment

AJQR is committed to providing immediate, free, and unrestricted online access to its published scholarly research while maintaining appropriate standards of peer review, editorial independence, research integrity, and publication ethics.