1. Licensing and Usage Rights
1.1 All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This license permits anyone to use, share, copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon) the material for any purpose, even commercially, provided that appropriate credit is given to the author(s) and source, a link to the license is provided, and any changes made are indicated.
1.2 The material may be used for any purpose, including commercially, provided that attribution is given, the license is linked, and changes are indicated.
2. Commitment to Open Access Principles
2.1 GMR supports the principles set out in major open access declarations, including the Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002) and the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (2003).
2.2 The journal’s Open Access policy is consistent with key Plan S principles, including immediate access without embargo and the use of an open license (CC BY 4.0), as described in the journal’s Open Access and licensing policies.
3. Archiving and Preservation
3.1 To guarantee permanent accessibility, all published articles are:
- assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) via CrossRef;
- The journal maintains secure backups of all published articles and associated metadata. Content is preserved to support long-term access and recoverability.
3.2 Authors are encouraged to self-archive the final published version of their work in institutional or subject-based repositories, in accordance with the journal’s licensing terms. Where applicable, repositories may support Open Archives Initiative (OAI) standards.
4. Ethical and Transparency Standards
4.1 GMR upholds the principles of transparency, editorial independence, and integrity in scholarly publishing.
4.2 The journal follows the ethical guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) to ensure:
- fairness and confidentiality in peer review,
- responsible editorial decision-making,
- compliance with international standards of open access publishing.