Open Access Policy and License
Open Access Policy
The Bank and Policy Journal is committed to the principles of open-access scholarly publishing and the broad dissemination of scientific knowledge. All articles are published under a full open access model, providing immediate, permanent, and unrestricted online access to published content without subscription or access barriers.
The journal supports internationally recognized open-access principles, including the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) and the Berlin Declaration on Open Access, promoting the free exchange of scholarly knowledge for researchers, educators, policymakers, and the wider public.
Licensing and Reuse
All published articles are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License.
The license permits:
- Reading, downloading, copying, printing, and sharing published articles.
- Adapting, translating, and building upon published work, including for commercial purposes.
- Reuse of published material provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s), the journal, and the CC BY 4.0 License.
This licensing model maximizes the visibility, accessibility, and dissemination of published research while ensuring proper attribution to the original authors.
Copyright and Author Rights
Authors retain the copyright of their work while granting the Bank and Policy Journal the non-exclusive right of first publication.
Authors may:
- Reuse and distribute their published work without restriction.
- Deposit the published version in institutional or subject repositories.
- Include published articles in books, theses, dissertations, or future scholarly works.
- Share the final published version through personal websites, institutional webpages, or academic networking platforms.
Publication Charges
The Bank and Policy Journal does not charge authors any fees during the publication process.
- No submission fee
- No peer-review fee
- No article processing charge (APC)
- No publication fee
- No page charges
- No additional charges for figures, tables, or supplementary materials
All editorial and publication services are provided without cost to authors.
Author Responsibilities
By submitting a manuscript, authors confirm that:
- The submitted work is original and has not been published elsewhere.
- Necessary permissions have been obtained for any copyrighted material.
- The reported data and results are accurate and honestly presented.
- Any potential conflicts of interest have been disclosed.
- The research complies with internationally accepted standards of publication ethics and academic integrity.
The journal's editorial policies are developed in accordance with the recommendations and Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).