National Research Journal policy
Open Access Policy
Immediate reader access, clear reuse rights and unrestricted scholarly discovery for National Research Journal.
National Research Journal provides immediate open access to all published content. Readers may access, read, download, copy, distribute, print, search and link to articles without registration, subscription or embargo, subject to the applicable Creative Commons licence.
- Journal
- National Research Journal
- Publisher
- Shirley Publishing House
- Print ISSN
- 2960-3625
- Open-access model
- Immediate open access
- Reader access fee
- None
- Registration requirement
- None
- Embargo period
- None
- Applicable licence
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Copyright ownership
- Authors retain copyright
- Effective date
- September 13, 2026
- Last updated
- September 13, 2026
Reader access
No login, registration, subscription, payment, cookie consent or form completion is required to open or download publicly available articles. Full-text articles are made freely accessible upon publication without an embargo period.
Licence and reuse
Unless otherwise clearly indicated on the individual article, research articles published by National Research Journal are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence. This licence permits copying, distribution, adaptation and commercial reuse, provided that appropriate credit is given to the author or authors, the original publication is identified, the licence is linked and any changes are indicated.
Copyright
Authors retain copyright in their articles. Publication by the journal does not transfer copyright ownership to Shirley Publishing House.
Self-archiving
Authors may deposit the submitted manuscript, accepted manuscript and published Version of Record in lawful personal, institutional or disciplinary repositories without embargo. Deposited copies should identify the article’s original publication in National Research Journal and link to the journal record when available.
Machine access
Search engines, repositories, indexing services and scholarly databases may crawl, harvest and index publicly available article metadata and full text. Automated access must remain lawful and should respect reasonable technical safeguards that protect the website’s availability.