Open Access Policies

Open Access Policy

Medha Drishty International Research Journal (MDIRJ) is committed to promoting the unrestricted dissemination of scholarly knowledge through an open-access publishing model. The journal provides researchers, academicians, scholars, students, professionals, and readers worldwide with free and immediate access to its published academic content.

As an open-access journal, MDIRJ makes all published articles freely available online immediately after publication, without requiring readers to pay subscription fees, access charges, or registration fees. The journal aims to remove barriers to scholarly communication and facilitate the broad dissemination of research across geographical, institutional, and disciplinary boundaries.

The journal does not place its published scholarly content behind subscription-based paywalls. Readers may access published research for academic and research purposes without financial barriers. This open-access approach enables researchers, students, educational institutions, independent scholars, professionals, and research communities, including those in resource-constrained settings, to access relevant scholarly literature.

All published articles are freely available for reading, downloading, printing, citing, and sharing in accordance with the applicable copyright and Creative Commons licensing terms. Readers and users are expected to provide appropriate attribution to the original authors and the journal when using or sharing published material.

MDIRJ recognizes and respects the intellectual property rights of authors. Authors retain the copyright of their published work, subject to the applicable publication and licensing terms agreed upon with the journal. The journal is granted the necessary rights to publish, archive, preserve, and disseminate the scholarly work as part of its academic publishing activities.

Authors are encouraged to increase the visibility and accessibility of their published research by sharing their articles through institutional repositories, personal academic webpages, research profiles, educational platforms, and other legitimate scholarly communication channels, subject to the applicable licensing conditions.

The journal supports responsible scholarly communication and believes that unrestricted access to research can contribute to greater knowledge exchange, academic collaboration, research visibility, and the advancement of scholarship. By providing free access to published research, Medha Drishty International Research Journal (MDIRJ) seeks to support researchers and readers from diverse academic and geographical backgrounds.

Through its open-access publishing policy, Medha Drishty International Research Journal (MDIRJ) is committed to promoting the democratization of scholarly knowledge, strengthening global academic communication, encouraging interdisciplinary research collaboration, and ensuring that valuable research findings remain accessible to the wider academic and research community.