The Interdisciplinary Journal of Education (IJE) is a fully open-access scholarly journal. All published scholarly articles are made freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication.

Readers are not required to pay subscription, registration, pay-per-view, or other access charges to read published journal content.

IJE supports open scholarly communication because broad access to research can enhance the dissemination, visibility, verification, reuse, and international exchange of educational knowledge.

1.1 Access and Reuse

Readers may access, read, download, copy, share, and reuse published material in accordance with the Creative Commons license displayed for the article and subject to any separately identified rights in third-party material.

Open access to an article does not remove the obligation to provide proper scholarly attribution to the author(s) and the original publication.

1.2 Reader Charges

IJE does not charge readers for accessing, reading, or downloading published journal articles.

Any charges that may apply to authors are governed separately by the journal's Author Fees / Article Processing Charges Policy and have no effect on reader access to published content.

1.3 Self-Archiving

Authors may deposit the published Version of Record of their IJE article in:

• institutional repositories;
• disciplinary or subject repositories;
• personal academic websites;
• research-information systems;
• non-commercial scholarly profile services; and
• other legitimate scholarly repositories.

No embargo is imposed by IJE on self-archiving the published Version of Record.

Deposited copies should include the complete bibliographic citation and DOI or permanent link to the official version published by IJE.

2.1 Copyright Ownership

Authors retain copyright in articles published by the Interdisciplinary Journal of Education (IJE). Copyright is not transferred to the journal or publisher as a condition of publication.

By publishing in IJE, authors grant the journal and Sumber Belajar Sejahtera a non-exclusive right of first publication and the continuing non-exclusive right to publish, distribute, display, preserve, archive, index, reproduce for preservation purposes, and identify the published article as the official Version of Record.

Authors remain responsible for ensuring that their work does not unlawfully infringe copyright, intellectual property, privacy, confidentiality, or other legally protected rights of third parties.

2.2 Creative Commons License

Unless otherwise clearly stated on an individual article, articles published by IJE are distributed under the:

Subject to the terms of the license, users may share, copy, redistribute, remix, transform, and build upon licensed material, including for commercial purposes, provided that the applicable license conditions are followed.

Users must:

1. give appropriate credit to the author(s) and original publication;
2. provide a link to the CC BY-SA 4.0 license;
3. indicate whether changes were made; and
4. distribute adaptations under the same license as the original, as required by the ShareAlike condition.

Users may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from exercising the rights permitted by the license.

2.3 Author Rights

Because authors retain copyright, they may, subject to applicable third-party rights and proper acknowledgment of the original IJE publication:

• use the article for teaching and academic activities;
• include the article in a thesis or dissertation;
• deposit the published Version of Record in institutional or subject repositories;
• share the published article through legitimate scholarly and professional channels;
• present or distribute the work in academic meetings and teaching activities; and
• reuse parts of the article in subsequent scholarly work, consistent with the article's license and appropriate citation requirements.

2.4 Third-Party Material

Authors are responsible for identifying third-party material contained in their manuscript and obtaining any permission required for its publication and reuse.

Third-party material may include:

• photographs;
• figures and illustrations;
• tables;
• maps;
• questionnaires and research instruments;
• psychometric scales;
• datasets;
• copyrighted educational materials; and
• other protected content.

Users seeking to reuse separately licensed or excluded third-party material are responsible for obtaining permission from the relevant rights holder where required.

2.5 Version of Record

The final article published on the official IJE website and assigned its publication metadata and DOI constitutes the journal's Version of Record.

Where a correction, retraction, expression of concern, or other post-publication notice becomes necessary, the notice should be clearly linked to the Version of Record wherever technically possible.

2.6 Copyright Notice

The recommended copyright and license notice for newly published articles is:

The Interdisciplinary Journal of Education (IJE) is committed to supporting the long-term accessibility, integrity, availability, and preservation of its published scholarly content.

The preservation policy is intended to reduce the risk of permanent content loss and to support continued access to the journal's scholarly record.

3.1 Content Covered

Digital preservation arrangements may include:

• published article files;
• issue and article metadata;
• bibliographic records;
• supplementary files where applicable;
• correction and retraction notices;
• article identifiers and DOI-related metadata; and
• other publication records required to maintain the scholarly record.

3.2 OJS Publishing Infrastructure

IJE is published using Open Journal Systems (OJS), which serves as the journal's principal platform for editorial workflow, publication, article presentation, issue management, and journal metadata.

Published content and associated metadata are maintained within the journal's publishing infrastructure and are managed to support continued public access.

3.3 Backup and Recovery

The publisher maintains backup and recovery procedures for journal files, database information, and relevant publication metadata to reduce the risk of permanent data loss and to support restoration following technical failure or other service disruption.

Backup procedures form part of the journal's operational continuity arrangements and do not replace the need for independent or distributed preservation services where those services are available and activated.

3.4 Distributed Preservation

IJE supports the use of established digital-preservation services that are technically compatible with its publishing infrastructure.

The journal will identify a preservation service by name on this policy page only when participation in that service has been officially activated and can be verified.

3.5 Preservation of the Scholarly Record

IJE seeks to preserve the Version of Record and maintain the relationship between the original publication and any subsequent correction, retraction, expression of concern, or other formal post-publication notice.

Where post-publication changes are necessary, the journal seeks to preserve transparency by maintaining an identifiable scholarly record rather than silently replacing or obscuring substantive publication history.

3.6 Journal Cessation

If IJE ceases publication, the publisher will make reasonable efforts to preserve previously published scholarly content and maintain public access through available preservation infrastructure, institutional repositories, backups, or other established scholarly archiving arrangements.

3.7 Repository and Author Archiving

Author self-archiving provides an additional means of scholarly dissemination and access.

Authors may archive the published Version of Record in institutional, subject, or other legitimate scholarly repositories without a journal embargo, provided that the deposited version includes the complete citation and DOI or permanent link to the original IJE publication.