Open Access Policy

The Indian History Journal (IHJ) is a fully Open Access academic journal committed to the free, immediate, and global dissemination of scholarly knowledge in the field of history and related disciplines.

The Journal publishes original scholarly research and seeks to ensure that historical scholarship remains freely accessible to researchers, scholars, students, institutions, practitioners, and the general public without financial or institutional barriers.

Free Access to Published Content

The Indian History Journal does not charge readers for accessing its published content.

Readers may freely:

Read published articles online;
Download full-text articles;
Share links to published articles;
Cite and reference published works; and
Access the Journal's content without a subscription or institutional login.

There is no paywall or subscription requirement for accessing published articles.

Articles may be used, shared, and adapted for lawful purposes in accordance with the terms of the applicable Creative Commons licence.

Immediate Open Access

The Indian History Journal follows an immediate Open Access model.

There is no embargo period for published articles. All articles become freely available online from the official date of publication of the relevant issue.

Published content remains accessible online on a permanent basis, subject to the Journal's correction, withdrawal, and retraction policies.

Digital Preservation and Archiving

The Indian History Journal is committed to the long-term preservation and accessibility of its published scholarly record.

Published articles are permanently maintained through:

The official Indian History Journal website;
The Journal's digital publication platform; and
Recognised digital archiving or preservation services, where applicable.

The Journal may deposit or preserve its published content through appropriate scholarly repositories and digital preservation systems to support long-term accessibility.

Website Copyright

The design, visual identity, layout, logo, branding, editorial pages, policy documents, and other original website materials created specifically for the Indian History Journal, excluding individual scholarly articles, remain the intellectual property of the Journal and/or its publisher, as applicable.

Such website materials may not be reproduced, copied, modified, republished, or commercially exploited by any individual or organisation without prior written permission.

However, links to any page of the Indian History Journal website may be freely shared for academic, educational, research, and knowledge-dissemination purposes.

The copyright status of individual scholarly articles is governed separately by the applicable article licence.

Creative Commons Licence

All published articles of the Indian History Journal are made available under the:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0)

Under the CC BY 4.0 licence, users may:

Share the published material;
Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format;
Adapt, remix, transform, and build upon the material; and
Use the material for lawful purposes, including commercial purposes,

provided that the requirements of the licence are fulfilled.

Users must:

Give appropriate credit to the author(s);
Acknowledge the Indian History Journal as the original publisher;
Provide a link to the original publication where reasonably possible;
Provide a link to the CC BY 4.0 licence; and
Clearly indicate if changes were made to the original material.

The licence does not permit users to imply that the author(s), Journal, or Publisher endorses a particular use of the work where no such endorsement exists.

Author Rights

Copyright in published articles remains with the author(s), subject to the publication and licensing terms agreed with the Indian History Journal.

By publishing with IHJ, authors agree to make their work available under the CC BY 4.0 Licence and grant the Journal the necessary rights to publish, distribute, archive, and make the work publicly accessible.

Authors retain the right to:

Reuse their published work in subsequent scholarly publications;
Include the work in a thesis or dissertation;
Deposit the final published version in institutional repositories;
Deposit the final published version in appropriate subject or open-access repositories;
Share the published article through personal academic websites and scholarly networks; and
Distribute the published work for academic and educational purposes,

provided that the Indian History Journal is acknowledged as the original publisher and appropriate bibliographic information and/or the official publication URL is retained.

Author's Responsibility

Authors remain responsible for ensuring that material incorporated into their articles does not infringe the copyright or intellectual-property rights of third parties.

Where an article contains photographs, maps, illustrations, archival reproductions, newspaper extracts, manuscripts, or other copyrighted material belonging to third parties, authors are responsible for obtaining the necessary permissions where required.

Third-party material may be subject to copyright or licensing conditions separate from the CC BY 4.0 licence applied to the article as a whole.

Open Access and Article Processing Charges

Open Access availability is not conditional upon payment by readers.

Where applicable, the Journal may charge authors an Article Processing Charge (APC) following acceptance to support editorial administration, peer-review management, copyediting, typesetting, digital infrastructure, metadata, archiving, and other publication-related costs.

APCs, where applicable, are charged only after editorial acceptance and do not influence the editorial or peer-review decision.

The existence of an APC does not restrict readers' access to the published article.

Contact

Questions concerning Open Access, licensing, copyright, author rights, or reuse of material published in the Indian History Journal may be directed to: