Open Access Policy

The International Journal of Learner Diversity and Identities (IJLDI) provides open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public, supports a greater global exchange of knowledge and equitable educational practices. All the manuscripts published in The International Journal of Learner Diversity and Identities (IJLDI) are “Open Access” and freely available online for anyone. “By ‘open access’ to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.”

The International Journal of Learner Diversity and Identities (IJLDI) operates under the Creative Commons Attribution license in International Version 4. This allows for the reproduction of articles free of charge with the appropriate citation information. All authors publishing with The International Journal of Learner Diversity and Identities (IJLDI) accept these as the terms of publication. We follow ethical publishing guidelines defined by organizations as DOAJ, OASPA, WAME and ICMJE.