Open Access Statement

Open Access Statement AMI

Advances in Management Innovation (AMI) is a fully Open Access journal. All articles are freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without paywalls or subscription barriers. AMI publishes under the Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license, ensuring maximum lawful reuse while maintaining proper attribution and share-alike obligations.

1) Licensing & Reuse Rights (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, readers are free to:

• Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
• Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercial use.
• Provide proper attribution, include a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.
• Distribute derivative works under the same license (ShareAlike) as the original.

Authors retain the copyright to their work. By submitting to AMI, authors grant the journal the right to publish and disseminate the work under CC BY-SA 4.0.

2) Compliance with DOAJ Open Access Best Practices

• Clear and transparent OA policy outlining licensing terms, reader rights, and self-archiving permissions.
• No embargo periods — articles are open immediately upon publication.
• Article-level metadata (title, authors, affiliations, ORCID, abstracts, references, license) openly available for indexing and harvesting.
• Long-term preservation via trusted archiving services (e.g., PKP PN, LOCKSS, CLOCKSS).
• Full transparency on any Article Processing Charges (APCs) and waiver policies.

These elements align with DOAJ’s criteria to facilitate discoverability, indexing, and compliance verification.

3) Commitment to DORA (San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment)

AMI endorses the principles of DORA, promoting responsible research assessment and equitable Open Access publishing:

• Evaluating research based on content quality rather than journal-based metrics alone.
• Encouraging Open Data and Open Materials when ethically and legally possible.
• Supporting Open Citations and transparency through data availability statements.

4) Discoverability & Indexing (Web of Science Readiness)

To support eligibility for major indexing services, including Web of Science, AMI ensures:

• Editorial quality — a clear editorial policy, rigorous double-blind peer review, and adherence to COPE ethics guidelines.
• Comprehensive metadata — DOI (Crossref), ORCID, structured references, and machine-readable license information.
• International scope — diverse editorial board and author base, with a global range of topics.

These measures represent readiness for indexing consideration, not an automatic claim of inclusion.

5) Open Metadata, Persistent Identifiers & Self-Archiving

• DOI via Crossref assigned to every article, with complete and updated metadata.
• ORCID integration strongly encouraged for all authors.
• Open Citations to improve scholarly traceability.
• Green OA self-archiving — authors may deposit submitted, accepted (AAM), and published versions in institutional or personal repositories, citing DOI and license.
• Long-term preservation via PKP PN, LOCKSS, or CLOCKSS.