Global Regional Review (GRR) is a fully open access journal. All articles published in the journal are freely available to readers immediately after publication without subscription or registration.

Readers are free to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of published articles for lawful purposes, provided that proper credit is given to the authors and the journal. GRR publishes all articles under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License.

Global Regional Review (GRR) supports Green Open Access and encourages authors to preserve and share their research through recognized scholarly repositories.

Authors retain the copyright of their work and may archive the following versions of their manuscripts without any embargo period.

Authors may deposit their work in:

• Personal websites
• Institutional repositories
• Subject repositories
• ResearchGate
• Academia.edu
• Zenodo
• Other non-commercial scholarly repositories

When sharing the published version, authors should include the complete citation, journal name, and DOI of the published article.

Global Regional Review (GRR) is committed to ensuring the long-term preservation and accessibility of all published scholarly content. The journal uses internationally accepted publishing standards and digital preservation technologies to ensure that published articles remain accessible, discoverable, and usable in the future.

The journal is published on a standards compliant publishing platform that supports interoperability with scholarly repositories, indexing services, libraries, and digital preservation systems.

Each published article is assigned a permanent DOI and a stable article URL to ensure reliable identification, citation, and long-term access.

To support long-term preservation and accessibility, GRR implements the following technologies and standards:

• LOCKSS compatible manifest pages
• OAI-PMH metadata harvesting
• JATS XML full-text articles
• Dublin Core metadata
• Schema.org structured metadata
• Crossref DOI registration
• Permanent article URLs
• HTML, PDF, and XML article formats
• Regular server backups
• Redundant storage of published content

These technologies improve interoperability with scholarly repositories, indexing services, digital libraries, and preservation systems while helping ensure continued access to published research.

Global Regional Review is committed to maintaining permanent access to all published articles. Every reasonable effort is made to preserve and protect journal content against technical failures, accidental data loss, and future platform changes.

If publication of the journal is discontinued, the publisher will make every reasonable effort to ensure that previously published articles remain publicly accessible through preserved archives, repository deposits, and archived journal files.

The journal provides standardized metadata to improve the discoverability, accessibility, and preservation of published research.

Article metadata is available through:

• OAI-PMH
• Dublin Core
• JATS XML
• Schema.org
• Crossref DOI metadata

These standards allow indexing services, repositories, digital libraries, and preservation systems to harvest and process journal metadata efficiently.

Authors retain the copyright of their published work.

Articles published in GRR are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License. Readers may use and share published articles in accordance with the terms of the license while giving appropriate credit to the authors and the journal.

Global Regional Review follows the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing and is committed to maintaining the highest standards of publication ethics.

The journal follows the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). All submitted manuscripts undergo editorial screening and double-blind peer review before publication. The editorial board is committed to maintaining fairness, transparency, academic integrity, and ethical publishing practices throughout the editorial and publication process.

The following technical resources are publicly available to support interoperability, metadata harvesting, and digital preservation.

Questions regarding this Archiving Policy or the long-term preservation of published content may be directed to the Editorial Office of Global Regional Review through the contact information provided on the journal website.