Repository Policy

Integration of Mankind and Society (IMS) supports self-archiving and open dissemination of scholarly work. Authors are encouraged to deposit their manuscripts published by IMS in final format without embargo.  In line with the IMS Open Access Policy, Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), Open Policy Finder (formely Sherpa services) and OpenDOAR, IMS favors authors to make their research data publicly available in recognized and trusted repositories to promote transparency, reproducibility, and further research.