Repository Policy

Objectives 

• To use their institutional repositories to ensure that their research is accessible within their academic community.
• To deposit in subject-specific repositories that correspond to their research area.

International Journal of Progress in Social Sciences Development laid out a Repository Policy to maximize the visibility and accessibility of scholarly work and support the self-archiving of publications. 

• Authors are allowed to deposit pre-peer review versions of their work in any repository of their choice.
• Authors can deposit their accepted manuscripts in institutional repositories.
• Authors may be allowed to deposit the final published version (publisher’s PDF), depending on the specific terms of the licensing agreement with the International Journal of Progress in Social Sciences Development.
• All repository versions must include a proper citation of the published work with a link to the journal’s homepage or published article DOI.