This policy sets out copyright ownership, licensing terms, and author self-archiving (“green”) rights for content published in the journals of Associated Management Consultants Private Limited (AMCPL). It applies alongside the journal's Open Access and Publication Charges Policy, which sets out the applicable access routes and fees.
Associated Management Consultants Private Limited is the Sole Owner of, and holds the sole and exclusive rights to, the content published in the following journals:
This copyright covers the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute the content, including reprints, translations, photographic reproductions, microform, electronic form (offline or online), or other reproductions of a similar nature.
Open Access articles published in the Indian Journal of Marketing are made freely available online under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC 4.0). This licence applies exclusively to the online digital version of the article and permits others to share and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes, with appropriate attribution, subject to the full terms of the licence.
The full text of the CC BY-NC 4.0 licence is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
The Print Edition of the Indian Journal of Marketing is a registered periodical (RNI No. 16294/68) under the Press and Registration of Periodicals Act, 2023, and all print reproduction rights are reserved by Associated Management Consultants Pvt. Ltd. Open Access content (available in PDF) is provided for non-commercial research and education use only and is not to be used for commercial purposes.
Authors are permitted to deposit versions of their work published in the journals listed in Section 2, prior to August 2025, in institutional or subject repositories, subject to the following conditions:
This policy is maintained with reference to the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing (4th edition), jointly issued by COPE, DOAJ, OASPA, and WAME, which set expectations for how copyright, licensing, and self-archiving terms should be disclosed to authors and readers.
AMCPL is committed to transparency in its policies and operations. For further information or inquiries regarding copyright, licensing, or self-archiving, please contact Priyanka Gilani, Editorial Director, Associated Management Consultants Private Limited, at [email protected]