Self-archiving Policy

IJTACI supports the principles of open access and encourages the dissemination, visibility, and preservation of scholarly research through responsible self-archiving practices.

Author Self-Archiving Rights

Authors retain copyright of their work and are permitted to deposit and share their manuscripts in institutional repositories, subject-specific repositories, personal websites, academic social networks, and other non-commercial repositories.

The journal permits the archiving of the following versions of a manuscript:

Manuscript Version Archiving Permitted Embargo Period
Submitted Version (Preprint) Yes None
Accepted Manuscript  Yes None
Published Version (Version of Record) Yes None

Permitted Repositories

Authors may deposit their work in:

  • Institutional repositories
  • Subject-specific repositories
  • Government repositories
  • National repositories
  • Personal websites
  • University websites
  • ResearchGate
  • Academia.edu
  • Zenodo
  • Figshare
  • OSF (Open Science Framework)
  • arXiv (where appropriate)
  • Other reputable scholarly repositories

Citation Requirement

When archiving the Accepted Manuscript or Published Version, authors should include a citation to the original published article and provide the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) whenever available.

Suggested citation:

This article was originally published in the IJTACI. The final published version is available at: [DOI link].

Open Access Compliance

All articles published in IJTACI are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction, and sharing in any medium, provided appropriate credit is given to the original authors and source.

No Embargo Policy

IJTACI does not impose any embargo period on the self-archiving of submitted, accepted, or published versions of manuscripts.

Long-Term Accessibility

The journal encourages authors to deposit their work in trusted repositories that provide long-term preservation, discoverability, and persistent identifiers where possible.

Compliance with Funder Requirements

Authors may archive their manuscripts in accordance with the requirements of funding agencies, research institutions, governmental bodies, and open science mandates, provided that proper attribution to the journal is maintained.

Policy Updates

The journal reserves the right to update this policy as publishing standards, repository practices, and open-access requirements evolve.