Open Access means making scientific research publicly available to all on the internet, free of charge and without restriction. Open Access allows anybody to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and cite full versions of texts without financial or technical barriers (other than those associated with access to the internet), and furthermore to use such texts in any other conceivable legal manner. IJAL contents are published open access and the journal does not charge authors for their submissions and subscription is not required. The articles published (the published version or last submitted version) in IJAL may also stored in an open electronic archives, a practice commonly called, self-archiving or parallel publishing. 

Since 2020 (volume 14) all articles are published under a Creative Commons: Attribution license, which allows users to distribute the work and to reform or build upon it without the author's permission. Full reference to the author must be given. From 2006 to 2019 all articles in IJAL were published under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial licence. The valid license is given on each article landing page.

On February 14, 2002 the conference International Declaration of the Budapest Open Access Initiative was held in Budapest where the new publication strategy received an important boost. 

IJAL is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals, which is a database containing serious academic open access journals.

Copyright

The International Journal of Ageing and Later Life (IJAL) is published under the auspices of Linköping University Electronic Press (LiU E-Press).

• All authors retain the copyright for their work;
• All academic material at IJAL is protected by Swedish copyright law;
• IJAL has no commercial interest in an author's work;
• The publishing agreement which all authors must sign before their work is published at IJAL, gives IJAL permission to publish the material electronically;
• It is your responsibility as author to be aware of the copyright of any material you use in your work. This includes figures, tables, diagrams, pictures and sound and video files;
• If you re-publish with a commercial publisher work that you have already published at IJAL, you must inform the commercial publisher that the work is already electronically published at IJAL;
• All authors are free to publish their articles in other journals provided that the journal accepts that the author already has published the article in IJAL.
• LiU E-Press' policy is not to delete any published material.

Digital archiving

The International Journal of Ageing and Later Life (IJAL) is archived at the National Library of Sweden. All Swedish governmental agencies are obliged to deposit journal materials according to the law for legal deposit of electronic materials.