Open access policy and licensing terms

  1. Open access statement

AJSTSS is an open-access Journal whose content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is under the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition of open access.

  1. Licensing terms

AJSTSS publications are published under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. The license lets others 1. share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) 2. adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially under the following terms: 1. attribution (You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use) and 2. ShareAlike (If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original).

  1. Copyright statement

Papers to be published in AJSTSS must be the original work of the author/s that has not been published previously in any manner. Authors retain the copyright of the published papers.  

  1. Article Processing Charges

AJSTSSprovides immediate open access to all published articles. As an Open Access Journal, publishing an article in this Journal requires an Article Processing Charge (APC) that will be billed to the submitting author following acceptance. Apart from this Article Processing Charge, there are no other fees (for example submission charges, page charges, or colour charges). The Article Processing Charge for the Journal is Kenya shillings ten thousand (KES 10,000) or $100.

  1. Privacy statement

The names and email addresses entered in this Journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this Journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

  1. Plagiarism policy

Papers to be published in AJSTSS must be the original work of the author/s that has not been published previously in any manner. All submitted manuscripts will be subjected to a plagiarism check that will be done by AJSTSS. In the manuscript, sources should be cited. The similarity index report should not exceed 15%.