Open Access Policy

The International Journal of Educational Administration and Leadership: Theory and Practice (IJEDAL) is a fully open access journal. All content is freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication without subscription fees or access restrictions.

IJEDAL is committed to the principles of open science and supports the unrestricted dissemination of scholarly knowledge. Readers are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and link to the full texts of published articles in accordance with the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI).

Licensing

All articles published in IJEDAL are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Under this license, users may:

• Read, download, copy, print, and share published articles;

• Redistribute articles in any medium or format for non-commercial purposes;

• Provide appropriate attribution to the original author(s) and source.

Users may not:

• Use the material for commercial purposes;

• Modify, adapt, transform, or create derivative works from the published material.

Copyright

Authors retain full copyright of their published work and grant IJEDAL the right of first publication. The journal does not require authors to transfer copyright ownership.

Archiving and Preservation

All published content is permanently archived and made available through the journal's online publishing platform to ensure long-term accessibility and preservation.

Open Citations

IJEDAL supports the principles of the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) and encourages the unrestricted availability and accessibility of citation data to enhance scholarly communication and research transparency.