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About Innovative Insights

Publishing Knowledge. Expanding Perspectives.

“Innovative Insights (SMC-Private) Limited publishes open access, peer-reviewed journals, edited books and conference proceedings.”

We started with a simple goal: to give researchers, especially those in emerging and developing economies, a credible place to share work on the social, economic, legal and technological questions that matter to their communities.

Each of our journals is run by its own editorial board, which makes its decisions independently. Everything we publish is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

01 / Focus

Emerging Economies

Providing researchers in developing nations an internationally indexed, credible scholarly platform.

02 / Governance

Autonomous Boards

Rigorous publication decisions determined strictly on academic merit without commercial interference.

03 / Access

Universal CC BY 4.0

Authors retain full copyright; all research is globally open to read, cite, and build upon.

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Intellectual Property Quarterly

Trends in Intellectual Property Research

ISSN Online: 3007-8539

ISSN Print: 3007-8520

Publishes research papers and review papers related to all aspects of intellectual property rights, including patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and unfair competition.

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Scholarly Governance & Standards

Integrity at Every Stage of Publishing.

Our publishing practices are built around accessibility, transparency, academic independence, and responsible scholarly communication.

Open Access

Diamond Open Access — 100% Free for Readers and Authors

Every article is free to read online, without subscriptions, sign-ups, or paywalls. Innovative follows the Diamond Open Access model: reading and publishing are both free.

Every article we publish is free to read online, with no subscriptions, sign-ups or paywalls.

We follow a Diamond Open Access model, which means it costs nothing to read our journals and nothing to publish in them.

Innovative Insights (SMC-Private) Limited is an official signatory to the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI).

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Copyright and Licensing

Your Work Stays Yours — CC BY 4.0 International License

Authors retain full copyright and grant the journal the right to publish their work first.

Your work stays yours. Authors keep full copyright and simply give the journal the right to publish it first.

All published content is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Content may be shared, adapted, and reused, including commercially, with proper attribution to the author(s), the journal, and Innovative Insights (SMC-Private) Limited as the publisher.

CC BY 4.0 International 100% Author Copyright Retained Unrestricted Reuse with Credit

Double-Blind Peer Review

Independent Evaluation Safeguarding Academic Objectivity

Every manuscript undergoes double-blind peer review by at least two independent subject experts before editorial decisions are made.

Every manuscript goes through double-blind peer review.

Subject experts read and assess the work before the editors decide whether to publish it, and neither the authors nor the reviewers know each other's identity.

Submissions are judged solely on scholarly merit, technical rigor, and methodological soundness.

Anonymized Reviewer & Author Identity Min. 2 Independent Appraisals

Publication Fees

Zero Submission Fees · Zero Article Processing Charges (APCs)

There are no submission fees or article processing charges (APCs). Financial ability has no bearing on acceptance.

There are none. We don't charge submission fees or article processing charges (APCs).

Researchers can submit, peer-review, and publish without any economic barrier.

Ensuring equitable participation for scholars worldwide regardless of institutional funding.

$0 Submission Fee $0 Article Processing Charge

Publication Ethics and Inclusion

COPE, OASPA, HEC Pakistan Guidelines & C4DISC Principles

The company follows ethical standards and best-practice guidance from COPE, OASPA, and HEC of Pakistan, welcoming scholars of all backgrounds.

We follow the ethical standards and best-practice guidance of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) and the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan.

We expect the same of our editors, reviewers and authors at every stage of the process.

We believe good scholarship comes from many voices. We welcome submissions from authors of every background, region and career stage, and we aim for the same range on our editorial boards and among our reviewers.

Our team works in line with the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion promoted by the Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC).

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Archiving and Preservation

Zero-Embargo Self-Archiving & PKP Preservation Network

Authors may share preprints, accepted manuscripts, and final versions immediately upon publication without embargo. Long-term preservation is secured via the PKP Preservation Network.

We encourage authors to share their research widely. You're welcome to post your pre-print, accepted manuscript or final published version in an institutional repository, a subject archive or on your own website.

You can do this as soon as the article is published. There's no embargo period, and you don't need to ask our permission.

We want the research we publish to stay accessible for years to come, so our journal content is preserved through the PKP Preservation Network.

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Author Sovereignty & Editorial Autonomy

Research Belongs to Its Authors.

Scholarly communication works best when authors retain ownership of their intellectual output and editorial decisions remain insulated from commercial interest.

Principle 01

Author Ownership

Authors retain full copyright over their published work. You simply grant the journal the right to publish your work first under the CC BY 4.0 license.

Full copyright retained

Principle 02

Freedom to Share

Authors can share their preprints, accepted manuscripts, and final published versions immediately upon publication with no embargo period and no additional permission.

Zero-embargo self-archiving

Principle 03

Independent Decisions

Each journal operates through its own editorial board, and publication decisions are based on academic merit alone, completely free from commercial or organizational bias.

Editorial autonomy guaranteed

Financial Model & Transparency

How Our Operations Are Funded

Since authors don't pay to publish, we keep our journals running through three sources: support from Innovative Insights (SMC-Private) Limited itself, and optional purchases of printed issues by authors. None of these has any say in what gets published. Editorial decisions are made on academic merit alone.

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