Open Access and Sharing

Free Reader Access

Articles in the International Journal of Business & Computational Sciences (IJBCS) are freely accessible online upon publication, without a subscription or reader access charge.

Sharing and Reuse

The journal's current article license is Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Readers may download and share unadapted articles for non-commercial purposes with appropriate attribution, a license link, and relevant notices. This license does not authorize commercial reuse or distribution of adaptations.

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Author Rights and Deposits

Authors retain copyright and may self-archive in accordance with the applicable version license and the Copyright Policy. Deposited versions should identify their status and link to the published article.

Publication Charges

Reader access is free. The APC for an accepted article is USD 100 for international authors or PKR 25,000 for national authors based in Pakistan. Financial-hardship waivers are considered separately from editorial assessment. See the fee and waiver policy.

Review and Transparency

Research manuscripts normally undergo double-anonymized external peer review. Support for transparent methods and responsible data sharing does not imply that confidential reviewer identities or reports are publicly disclosed.