Open Access Policy

The International Journal of Agriculture, Environment and Food Sciences is an open access journal, meaning all published content is freely accessible online without financial, legal, or technical barriers. This policy is fully aligned with the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI).

Free and Unrestricted Access
All articles are made immediately and permanently available on the public internet, allowing any user to:
- Read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts,
- Crawl the articles for indexing,
- Pass the content as data to software,
- Use the content for any other lawful non-commercial purpose.
No subscription, registration, or payment is required to access the full content.

User Rights and Licensing
Users may access, share, and adapt the content for non-commercial purposes, provided that proper attribution is given to the original authors and source.
All content is published under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) 4.0 International License:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0

This license permits:
- Free use, redistribution, and modification,
- Non-commercial use only,
- Proper citation of the original work and DOI link.

Author Rights and Copyright
Authors retain the copyright of their published work. They are free to:
- Share their articles on personal or institutional websites,
- Archive any version of the manuscript in public repositories,
- Reuse their work in other scholarly contexts with proper citation.
For details on archiving rights, see our Archiving and Preservation Policy.

Editorial Processing Charges (EPC)
Although access is free for all readers, the journal operates under a cost-recovery model to sustain high-quality editorial and publishing services. Therefore, an Editorial Processing Charge (EPC) is applied to each accepted manuscript.
This fee covers:
- Manuscript management and peer review coordination,
- Article formatting and digital production,
- Hosting, indexing, and long-term preservation.
For more information, visit our Price Policy

Archiving and Digital Preservation
All published content is archived and preserved through the following systems:
- Journal Archive:
https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/jaefs/archive
- LOCKSS System:
https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/jaefs/lockss-manifest
- OAI Metadata Protocol:
https://dergipark.org.tr/api/public/oai/jaefs/
- RSS Feed for Updates:
https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/jaefs/rss-feeds

Contact Information
International Journal of Agriculture, Environment and Food Sciences

Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Gültekin Özdemir

Institutional Address:
Dicle University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Horticulture
Diyarbakır, Türkiye

E-mail: editor@jaefs.com

Alternative: jaefseditor@gmail.com