IQAS supports free and unrestricted online access to all its issues. This journal gives authors the option to publish open access free of charge via the Open Journal System (OJS), making all articles free to access online immediately on publication. A print version of each issue can be purchased from Arnold Bergstraesser Institute.

IQAS is published under a Creative Commons license and will be hosted online in perpetuity. The standard license for the journal is → Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International). This allows others to re-use the work without permission as long as the work is properly referenced, but doesn't allow to use the material for commercial purposes or to distribute any modification of the original material. All rights remain with the author.

The authors grant IQAS the non-exclusive right to reproduce his or her contribution in physical form, and to provide a paid print version of each issue in addition to the free online version. The costs for the print version are calculated to cover the costs for publication only and are not profit-seeking.

All articles submitted to IQAS must not have been published or be under consideration elsewhere. We are unable to pay for permissions to publish pieces whose copyright is not held by the author. Contributors will be responsible for clearing all copyright permissions before submitting interview citations, translations, illustrations, tables or long quotes. Material appearing in the IQAS does not necessarily represent the views of the editors or of the publisher. Responsibility for opinions expressed and the accuracy of facts published in articles rests solely with the individual authors.

Parallel copyright symbols before July 2022
Please note that articles published before July 2022 bear a misleading copyright symbol (© Internationales Asienforum) alongside the Creative Commons (cc) License in the PDF file. As published articles cannot be changed anymore retrospectively we apologise for this possible confusion. It is our ommission not to have deleted the © symbol when adopting the cc licensing. The copyright for all articles follows the cc licensing without any exception.