Open Access Policy and Archiving

1-    Open Access Policy

2-    Licensing

3-    Archiving Policy

4-    Repository Policies

 

Open Access Policy

The European Journal of Studies in Management and Business (MBRQ)  is committed to immediate and permanent open access to all its content. We believe that unrestricted access to research is essential for the global exchange of knowledge. MBRQ operates under the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) as a Diamond Open Access model. This means:

• For Readers: All content is published as immediate, permanent, full-text Open Access. There are no subscription fees, paywalls, or registration requirements to access our articles.
• For Authors: We do not charge Article Processing Charges (APCs), submission fees, or page charges. Authors are not required to pay any fees to have their work reviewed or published in this journal.

MBRQ is a proud signatory of the Budapest Open Access Initiative definition of Open Access,  which mandates that the literature be available online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions, facilitating the unrestricted exchange of research.

Licensing

All articles published in the European Journal of Studies in Management and Business (MBRQ) are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 International License. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.

 

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License 

 

Archiving Policy

1- Self-Archiving Policy

-   Pre-prints (Submitted Version)

Authors are permitted to upload the pre-print version of their manuscript (the original draft before peer review and formal editing) to preprint servers or any other platform. If a pre-print is posted, the publisher and journal must be acknowledged using the following statement:

“This is a pre-peer-reviewed version of a manuscript submitted to European Journal of Studies in Management and Business, published by EUROKD.”

Authors are required to disclose any pre-print postings—including the DOI and licensing terms—either during the initial manuscript submission or at any point during the peer-review process.

-   Post-prints (Accepted Version)

Authors may share their post-print manuscript (the version accepted after peer review, but prior to final copyediting, typesetting, and proofreading) on their personal, non-commercial websites or within institutional repositories. In such cases, the following acknowledgment must be included:

“This is an accepted, peer-reviewed version of the article [Name of the article], accepted for publication in European Journal of Studies in Management and Business. The final published version is available on the EUROKD website at: http://dx.doi.org/[DOI of the article].”

-   Published Version (Version of Record)

As an open-access journal, authors are fully authorized and encouraged to upload the final, published PDF (the fully edited and typeset version) to any institutional repository, academic network, or distribute it via any other channel. The only requirement is to acknowledge the journal and publisher with this statement:

“This is the published version of the article [Name of the article], originally published in European Journal of Studies in Management and Business. It is available on the Journal website at: http://dx.doi.org/[DOI of the article].”

 

2- Long-Term Digital Preservation and Archiving

The Editorial Board and EUROKD are committed to the permanent availability and preservation of the scholarly record.

-   Sherpa Romeo

Our archiving and open-access policies are indexed in Sherpa Romeo, a recognized online resource that aggregates and analyzes publisher policies worldwide. This ensures our self-archiving permissions and author rights are transparent and easily accessible to the global academic research community.

-   Portico Digital Preservation

To safeguard our published research against unforeseen circumstances, Journals published by EUROKD are a participant of Portico, a leading digital preservation service. All articles are archived through Portico, an independent digital preservation service for e-journals, e-books, and digital collections. This partnership ensures that the scholarly content we publish will be securely archived and remain accessible to researchers, libraries, and readers for the long term—even in the event of a disruption or outage. By participating in Portico, we are reinforcing our commitment to the permanence and accessibility of academic research. Authors and readers can rest assured that the knowledge shared through our journal will be preserved for future generations.

Publisher Link: portico.org/publishers/EUROKD/

Portico guarantees that all content will remain accessible and usable for researchers, scholars, and students in the event of a “trigger event,” such as:

• EUROKD ceasing its publishing operations;
• Internal backups becoming completely unavailable;
• A prolonged or permanent failure of the EUROKD website.

In addition to external preservation, all corresponding manuscript versions are securely maintained within the EUROKD internal website archives.   

 

Repository Policies

EUROKD champions open science and maintains a progressive, open-access repository policy that aligns seamlessly with Sherpa/Romeo guidelines. We empower our authors by allowing them to self-archive and deposit their research in various repositories under the following conditions:

Preprint Repositories: Authors are free to deposit the initial, un-reviewed preprint versions of their manuscripts in any preprint server or repository at any time, with zero embargo period.

Institutional Repositories: Authors may deposit the accepted, peer-reviewed version of their manuscript (the post-print) into their respective university or institutional repositories immediately upon acceptance, with no embargo period.

Central and Subject Repositories: Authors hold the right to deposit the accepted post-print version of their manuscript into centralized or disciplinary repositories (such as PubMed Central, SSRN, etc.) without any embargo restrictions.

Personal Websites and Academic Networks: Authors are actively encouraged to share either the final, published PDF (the Version of Record) or the accepted manuscript on their personal websites, blogs, or academic networking profiles immediately upon publication.

 

Attribution and Linking

Whenever a manuscript or published article is shared or deposited, we request that authors provide proper and full attribution to the original work published in the respective EUROKD journal. Authors must include a direct link to the final published article on the EUROKD website, ideally utilizing the official Digital Object.