Open Access Policy

Accounting, Business, Governance & Sustainability (ABGS) is an open access journal, meaning that all content is freely available to readers without any subscription or access fees. Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without seeking prior permission from the publisher or authors. This policy aligns with the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), which promotes unrestricted access to scholarly literature.

Open Access ensures that research published in ABGS reaches a global audience, enhancing visibility, accessibility, and citation potential. Authors retain copyright of their work and grant the journal a license to publish under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, allowing others to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.