IEJES is a fully open-access journal and it provides free and unlimited access to the articles that it publishes without any form of restriction, subscription, or requirement. This benefit results in higher visibility, readership and citation. An open-access policy also helps disseminate knowledge as widely as possible. Based on its open-access policy, the journal allows readers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use.

Authors publishing with the journal retain the copyright to their work licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. For this purpose, our journal follows the open access policy defined by the Budapest Open Access Initiative.