Open Access Commitment
All articles published in JMMBS are made immediately and permanently open access upon publication. Content is freely available to read, download, and redistribute without registration, institutional subscription, or payment of any kind.
JMMBS is registered in the ROAD Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources (ISSN 3070-3662) and all articles are licensed under CC BY 4.0, permitting unrestricted reuse with attribution.
Editorial Independence & Ethics
Editorial decisions at JMMBS are based solely on scholarly merit, relevance, methodological quality, and ethical compliance. Payment has no bearing on the peer-review process or acceptance decisions — at any stage.
Editors and reviewers operate under the journal's Publication Ethics policy and declare conflicts of interest. Authors are never solicited or pressured for payment in exchange for acceptance or expedited review.
Future Policy Changes
As of the current publication cycle, JMMBS operates under a strict zero-fee, zero-APC model. Any future policy change — if ever considered — would be publicly announced in advance on this page and never applied retroactively to manuscripts already under review or in production.