Content Policy

• IJDST publishes original academic content that falls within the journal's stated aims and scope and meets appropriate standards of academic quality, originality, research integrity, and ethical publication.
• Unless otherwise stated, IJDST publishes its articles under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License.
• Users may read, download, print, cite, share, and reuse published content in accordance with the applicable license, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and IJDST.
• Any adaptation, translation, redistribution, or other reuse of published content must comply with the applicable license and must not misrepresent the original work or imply endorsement by IJDST or the author(s).
• Authors retain the rights applicable to their published work, subject to the copyright and licensing terms agreed with IJDST.
• Authors are responsible for ensuring that submitted manuscripts do not infringe copyright, intellectual property rights, privacy rights, or other legal rights of third parties.
• Authors must obtain appropriate permission for copyrighted third-party materials, including substantial quotations, figures, tables, photographs, datasets, or other materials where permission is required.
• Authors are responsible for the accuracy, originality, ethical compliance, and legal status of the content submitted for publication.
• IJDST may edit manuscripts for language, formatting, clarity, and publication requirements without intentionally changing the substantive meaning of the work.
• IJDST reserves the right to reject, refuse publication, or remove content where there is credible evidence of plagiarism, copyright infringement, research misconduct, legal violation, serious ethical concerns, or other substantial breaches of journal policy.
• IJDST does not permit content that is unlawful, defamatory, discriminatory, threatening, fraudulent, misleading, abusive, or otherwise inconsistent with applicable law and responsible academic publishing practices.
• Published content may be corrected, updated, or retracted when necessary to protect the integrity of the published academic record and in accordance with IJDST's relevant policies.
• The IJDST website and published content must not be used for unauthorized advertising, promotional activities, commercial solicitation, or activities that may compromise the independence of the journal.
• Commercial reuse of published content shall be governed by the applicable copyright and licensing terms and any permissions required by the relevant rights holder.
• IJDST reserves the right to review and update this policy when necessary to reflect developments in copyright law, licensing, research integrity, publication ethics, and academic publishing standards.