Open Access Policy

The Iraqi Journal for Applied Science (IJAS) is an international, peer-reviewed, fully open-access journal committed to the unrestricted dissemination of high-quality scientific research. The journal believes that free and immediate access to scholarly literature accelerates scientific discovery, encourages international collaboration, enhances research visibility, and supports innovation for the benefit of society.

All articles published in IJAS are made immediately, permanently, and freely available online upon publication without subscription fees, registration requirements, or access restrictions.

The journal operates under the Gold Open Access publishing model, ensuring that the published Version of Record is freely accessible to everyone worldwide.

Open Access Principles

IJAS supports the principles of open scholarly communication and ensures that all published content is available to researchers, educators, students, practitioners, policymakers, libraries, and the general public without financial, legal, or technical barriers.

Readers may, without requesting permission:

Read published articles free of charge.
Download the full text.
Copy and redistribute the work.
Print articles for personal or educational use.
Share articles with colleagues.
Link to published articles.
Cite published research.
Reuse published material in accordance with the applicable license.

No subscription or registration is required to access journal content.

Author Rights

Authors retain full copyright and moral rights to their published work.

Publication in IJAS does not require the transfer of copyright ownership.

By publishing in the journal, authors grant IJAS a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual license to:

publish the article;
distribute the work;
archive and preserve the published version;
assign a Digital Object Identifier (DOI);
register article metadata with scholarly infrastructure services;
disseminate the article through indexing and discovery platforms.

Authors remain free to:

Share the published Version of Record.
Reuse their work in future publications.
Include the work in books, theses, dissertations, lectures, and teaching materials.
Deposit the published article in repositories.
Comply with institutional and funding agency open-access requirements.

Licensing

All articles published in IJAS are licensed under the:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0)

This license permits unrestricted:

Reading
Downloading
Copying
Printing
Sharing
Distribution
Reproduction
Adaptation
Translation
Commercial and non-commercial reuse
Text and Data Mining (TDM)
Machine learning and computational analysis

provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s), the original publication is cited, the DOI is included where available, and any modifications are clearly indicated.

License Information

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Repository and Self-Archiving Policy

IJAS strongly encourages the preservation and dissemination of scholarly research through self-archiving.

Authors may immediately deposit the following versions of their manuscripts without embargo:

Preprints (submitted manuscript)
Accepted Author Manuscripts (AAM/Postprints)
Published Version of Record

The journal permits deposit in:

Institutional repositories
Subject repositories
National repositories
Funding agency repositories
Personal websites
Departmental websites
Research group websites
Academic networking platforms where permitted by platform policies

Authors should cite the original IJAS publication and include the DOI whenever available.

Long-Term Preservation

IJAS is committed to ensuring the long-term preservation, integrity, and accessibility of the scholarly record.

Published articles are preserved through the journal's digital archiving strategy and, where applicable, trusted preservation services adopted by the journal to ensure permanent public access to published research.