General Policy (OA & APC)

Licenses and Copyright (Open Access)

All open access articles in the journals of the GR Scholastic are published under the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 (CC BY-NC) International license. These provide an industry-standard framework to support easy re-use of open access material. For More information about Creative Commons licence, please visits: The Creative Commons Website

Under Creative Commons licences, Upon acceptance of the manuscript for publishing, the corresponding author (On behalf of all the authors) will need to sign a License Agreement with GR Scholastic to allow them to publish their article.

According to this agreement:

  1. Authors of articles published in Journals published by GR Scholastic retain the copyright of their articles.
  2. Authors grant GR Scholastic a license to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher.
  3. Authors will retain broad re-use rights to their article content for their future publications.
  4. Upon Publication, as the publisher, GR Scholastic will apply a Creative Commons licence allowing re-use of the article by third parties for particular purposes.

The full legal code of the Creative Commons NonCommercial Attribution 4.0 International Public License may be found at

CC BY-NC: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 (CC BY-NC) International license. You are free to:

Share - Copy, redistribute, display the Works or the material
Adapt - remix, transform, and build upon the material

Under the following terms:

Attribution - The original author and original publisher must be given appropriate credit; a link to the license must be provided and indicate if changes were made.
NonCommercial - The “Work” cannot be used for commercial purposes.
No Additional Restrictions - You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Rights Retained by Authors (CC BY-NC License):Upon publication, authors and their institutions retain the right to:

  • Copy and share the Work for non-commercial purposes include the Work in future non-commercial publications authored by them.
  • Deposit the Accepted Manuscript in institutional repositories under the terms of the CC BY-NC license, provided it is not made public until after publication.
  • The work cannot be used for commercial purposes, meaning it can’t be sold or used in a way that would generate profit.

Open Access policy and Article Processing Charges

Publication charges (Article Processing Charges (APC) Charges):
At present, journals from GR Scholastic are fully Gold Open Access. We offer Gold Open Access to all our authors. This means that all articles published in our journal are freely available to the global community without any subscription or paywall. Authors retain copyright over their work, and the published content is freely accessible to everyone.

Article Processing Charges (APC):
We are pleased to announce that there are no Article Processing Charges (APC) for publishing in our journals.