Copyrights and Open Access Policy

Copyrights of all research papers published in Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society (Historicus) are held by the Pakistan Historical Society (PHS). However, as the Historicus follows Budapest Open Access Initiative for global exchange of knowledge, readers are freely allowed to download, read and print the full text papers of Historicus without prior permission from the PHS or the author as long as they acknowledge/cite the Historicus as original source.

Research papers submitted to Historicus should be original and should not be under consideration to some other publisher at the same time. Authors warrant that they are the sole owner of their research work and their submission is not an infringement of any copyright, trade secret or other proprietary rights and will indemnify the society of any breach of such warranty.