Open Access Policy

Armaghan-e-Sarhad (ارمغانِ سرحد) is committed to providing free, immediate, and unrestricted access to scholarly research. The journal follows the principles of open access publishing by ensuring that all published articles are freely available to readers worldwide without subscription fees, access charges, or registration requirements.

All articles published in Armaghan-e-Sarhad are openly accessible online. Readers may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to, and use the published content for lawful academic, educational, and research purposes, provided appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and the journal.

Open Access Model

Armaghan-e-Sarhad follows the Gold Open Access Model, ensuring that all published articles are made available immediately upon publication through the journal website.

The journal ensures that:

  • Published research is freely available without financial or technical barriers.
  • Readers can access full-text articles without subscription or payment.
  • Published content remains permanently available online.
  • Authors retain ownership and rights over their scholarly work.

Copyright and Author Rights

Authors retain full copyright ownership of their published articles. The journal receives a non-exclusive right to publish, distribute, and archive the articles while preserving the authors’ intellectual property rights.

Authors are allowed to:

  • Share their published articles through personal websites, academic networks, and repositories.
  • Reuse their work for educational and research purposes.
  • Deposit the final published version in institutional or subject-based repositories.
  • Distribute their research while providing proper acknowledgment of the original publication.

Creative Commons License

All articles published in Armaghan-e-Sarhad (ارمغانِ سرحد) are licensed under:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0)

License Link:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Under the CC BY 4.0 License, users are permitted to:

  • Share — copy and redistribute the published material in any medium or format.
  • Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercial use.

Users must:

  • Give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the journal.
  • Provide a link to the CC BY 4.0 license.
  • Indicate if any modifications have been made to the original material.

Long-Term Availability

The journal ensures continued accessibility of published articles through reliable digital preservation and archiving practices. All published content remains available for future researchers, educators, and academic communities.

Commitment to Knowledge Sharing

Armaghan-e-Sarhad (ارمغانِ سرحد) promotes the unrestricted exchange of scholarly knowledge by removing barriers to access and supporting transparent, ethical, and responsible dissemination of academic research.