ARCHIVING POLICY
SPCRD Global Publishing is a “Green Publisher”, as we allow self-archiving of accepted and published papers through Open Access policy before and after the publication of a paper in READS. Authors retain the copyright of their scholarly work and can archive pre-print and post-print or publisher’s version/PDF to personal or institutional repositories or libraries anytime without requiring permission from the journal or publisher.
Authors of published articles in READS are entitled to deposit their accepted manuscript or the version of record (published papers) in institutional and/or centrally organized repositories and can make this publicly available immediately through Open Access upon acceptance and publication, provided that the journal and SPCRD Global Publishing are attributed as the original place of publication and that correct citation details are given.
Upon acceptance of paper by the journal, the authors acknowledge while making their article publicly available that the article has been accepted for publication as follows:
This article has been accepted for publication in the "Review of Economics and Development Studies (READS) Published by SPCRD Global Publishing".
Authors can also make their published article publicly available immediately after publication without requiring any permission to different repositories, libraries, or personal websites provided that they also deposit the URL of their published article, in addition to the PDF version by correctly citing the journal name and SPCRD Global Publishing as publisher along with other citation details.
DIGITAL ARCHIVING AND PRESERVATION
To digitally preserve all published scholarly content of READS, SPCRD Global Publishing, the administration of SPCRD is applying for digital archiving and preservation of all volumes and Issues of READS to authorized organizations.
Furthermore, SPCRD Global Publishing commits to submit the metadata of READS to institutional repositories. This is to make sure that the published scholarly content by SPCRD Global Publishing remains available to the community despite discontinuation of the journal or any accidental loss of journal's data in its personal archival records. The SPCRD Global Publishing has further made sure that the metadata of all its open access journals is compliant with well-known repository services and their digital crawlers may regularly collect it for record and preservation.