The International Journal of Educational and Social Technology Research (IJESTER) is an open access journal, which means that all articles are freely available to readers immediately upon publication without any subscription or access charges.

• IJESTER provides instant open access to its content to promote the free exchange of knowledge and global scholarly communication.

• Readers are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles without asking prior permission from the publisher or the authors, in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition of open access.

• Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license, which allows users to share and adapt the work for any purpose, provided that proper credit is given to the original authors and source, and derivative works are licensed under identical terms.

By adopting this open access policy, IJESTER ensures that high-quality research in education, technology, and social sciences is accessible to a broad audience, including academics, practitioners, policymakers, and the wider community.