Statement on Open Access

The International Research Journal of Management, IT and Social sciences supports open access. There are no fees to individual authors, and authors are allowed to self-archive their work. The cost of publishing the journal is subsidized by Old Dominion University. Reproduction, posting, transmission or other distribution or use of the article or any material therein, in any medium as permitted by a personal-use exemption or by written agreement of the journal, requires credit to the International Research Journal of Management, IT and Social sciences as the copyright holder.

The journal operates under a Creative Commons License that allows for the reproduction of articles, free of charge, for non-commercial use only and with the appropriate citation information. The following uses are always permitted to the author(s) and do not require further permission, provided the author does not alter the format or content of the articles, including the copyright notification:

  • Posting of the article on the author(s) personal website, provided that the website is non-commercial; and
  • Posting of the article on the internet as part of a non-commercial open access institutional repository or other non-commercial open access publication site affiliated with the author(s)’s place of employment.

A complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission as stated above, in a suitable standard electronic format is deposited immediately upon initial publication in at least one online repository that is supported by Old Dominion University to enable open access, unrestricted distribution, interoperability, and long-term archiving.