Open Access Policy

The Researchers Journal Group is a fully open access publisher. All research published in TRJ, TESJ, and JAHDSR is immediately and permanently free to access, read, download, and share online — without any subscription fee, registration requirement, or access restriction of any kind.

We believe that the outputs of academic research — particularly research addressing African and Global South challenges — should be available to everyone: from scholars at well-resourced institutions to independent researchers, students, policymakers, and practitioners who lack access to expensive subscription journals.

All articles published by TRJG are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Under this licence, anyone is free to Share (copy and redistribute) and Adapt (remix, transform, and build upon) the material for any purpose, including commercially, provided appropriate credit is given to the original publication.

Authors retain full copyright of their work. By publishing with TRJG, authors grant TRJG a non-exclusive right to publish the article under the CC BY 4.0 licence.

To sustain open access publishing, TRJG charges a modest Article Processing Charge (APC) upon acceptance of a manuscript. There is no submission fee — APCs are only charged if your manuscript is accepted.

TRJG offers APC waivers and discounts for: (a) authors from low-income countries; (b) postgraduate student authors; and (c) authors demonstrating genuine financial hardship. Waiver requests must be submitted at the time of initial manuscript submission.

Authors are permitted and encouraged to deposit the final published version (Version of Record) of their article in institutional repositories, personal websites, and subject repositories (e.g. ResearchGate, Academia.edu) immediately upon publication, with appropriate citation to the original TRJG publication including the DOI.