IDA: International Design and Art Journal has adopted the publishing standards and policies set by DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), and it is an Open Access Journal. Open Access (OA) provides free access to the articles that are published in the journal.
The definition of "Open Access" according to the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) is: "it is free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself."

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