Open Access Policy
Cognitia : International Engineering Journal follows a Full Open Access Policy. All scholarly articles published by the journal are immediately and permanently available online to everyone, free of charge and without registration, subscription, or other access barriers. This policy is established in accordance with the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) and internationally recognized principles of transparency and best practice in scholarly publishing.
The journal supports the unrestricted dissemination of scholarly knowledge and believes that research should be accessible to researchers, practitioners, students, policymakers, and the wider public. Accordingly, all published scholarly content is made available under an open license that permits lawful access, reuse, and redistribution subject to the applicable license terms.
All published scholarly articles are freely accessible to readers without subscription or payment.
Articles become openly accessible immediately upon publication, with no embargo period.
Readers do not need to create an account or register to access published articles.
Subject to the terms of the applicable Creative Commons license and proper attribution, users may:
Access and download the full text of published articles.
Copy, distribute, and share the published work with appropriate attribution.
Link to, crawl, index, and use the content for lawful scholarly and educational purposes.
Adapt and reuse content in accordance with the terms of the applicable open license.
Unless otherwise stated for specifically identified third-party material, articles published by Cognitia : International Engineering Journal are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).
The copyright and licensing terms applied to published articles are separate from the copyright of the journal website. Authors and users should consult the license information displayed with each published article for the applicable rights and conditions.
Authors retain the rights to use, share, and disseminate their scholarly work in accordance with the applicable copyright and licensing agreement. Authors may deposit permitted versions of their work in institutional or subject repositories, where applicable, without an embargo, subject to the journal's copyright and licensing terms.
Authors are encouraged and permitted, subject to the applicable licensing terms, to deposit appropriate versions of their work in institutional repositories, subject repositories, or other recognized scholarly repositories to enhance discoverability, accessibility, and long-term dissemination.
The journal is committed to maintaining the long-term accessibility and preservation of its scholarly content through appropriate digital preservation and archiving mechanisms. Persistent identifiers and recognized digital preservation services may be used to support the continued availability, discoverability, and integrity of published articles.
Open access to published research is provided without discrimination based on nationality, institutional affiliation, geographic location, economic status, or other non-scholarly factors. Editorial decisions are made independently of readers' ability to pay for access and are based on scholarly and editorial criteria.
Alignment with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI): The journal supports the principle that scholarly research should be freely available on the public internet, enabling users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to the full texts of articles, and use them for other lawful purposes, subject to the applicable open license.