Open Access and Copyright Policy

The Lumina Interdisciplinary Research Journal (LIRJ) provides open access to its content on the principle that it supports greater global exchange of knowledge. Readers are not charged any subscription fee to access the full text of all articles. Permission to read, download, and print articles is not required. The journal, however, charges an article processing fee to support its operations.

Lumina Interdisciplinary Research Journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Authors grant the publisher exclusive publication rights but retain copyright of their work. Authors may share their articles in accordance with the license, provided proper attribution is given, the publisher’s identity is acknowledged, and a link to the officially published version is included. Authors also retain patent, trademark, and other intellectual property rights.