Open Access Policy

The Indian Journal of Climate & Environmental Studies (IJCEMS) is committed to the principle that all research should be freely accessible to the global scholarly community. In alignment with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), IJCEMS ensures immediate and unrestricted online access to all its published content.

1. Free and Immediate Access

All articles published in IJCEMS are freely available to read, download, copy, distribute, and share under the terms of the Creative Commons license adopted by the journal.
Readers are not required to register, log in, or pay any subscription fees to access full-text articles. The journal does not impose any embargo period, ensuring that published research is available immediately upon release.

2. Licensing

IJCEMS operates under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

This license permits users to:

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

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

Users must provide appropriate credit to the original author(s) and IJCEMS, include a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.

For full license terms, please visit: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

3. Author Rights

Authors publishing with IJCEMS retain full copyright of their work.
By submitting and publishing with the journal, authors grant IJCEMS the right to:

• Publish the work online and in print.
  
  

• Archive and index the article in international databases and repositories for wider dissemination.
  
  

Authors are encouraged to deposit their published articles in institutional or subject repositories, as well as on personal or professional websites, provided proper citation to the original publication in IJCEMS is included.

4. Accessibility and Digital Preservation

All IJCEMS articles are made available in PDF and HTML formats to ensure universal accessibility and accurate citation.
The journal is committed to long-term digital preservation, achieved through regular backups, redundant storage, and indexing in open repositories and digital archiving systems to guarantee continuous and permanent availability.

5. Submission and Access Model

IJCEMS follows a fully open-access publishing model, which includes:

• No subscription or access charges for readers.
  
  

• No login or registration required for access.
  
  

• Free submission process with no hidden fees or paywalls.
  
  

• All editorial communication and paper submission handled directly via:
  📧 ijces.india@gmail.com
  
  

6. Ethical Commitment

IJCEMS strongly supports open knowledge dissemination as a foundation of academic integrity, innovation, and social responsibility.
We believe that open access accelerates environmental and climate research by ensuring that quality scientific work is available to everyone, regardless of financial, institutional, or geographic barriers.