License
No fees. Undeterred Journal is fully open access and charges authors nothing: no submission fees, no publication fees and no article processing charges (APCs). Readers pay nothing to read, download or share published articles.
This is a deliberate choice, not a default. CC BY 4.0 is the license most funder open-access mandates (including Plan S) require, and it's the one that makes an article as widely usable and citable as possible, which is the entire point of publishing it in the first place.
Copyright Ownership
Authors retain copyright of their own work. Undeterred Press does not require a copyright transfer agreement, and never takes ownership of a published article. Publishing here grants Undeterred Press a non-exclusive right to publish and distribute the work under the CC BY 4.0 terms above; the author remains free to republish, reuse, or license the same work elsewhere.
A journal that claims to be "open access" while quietly requiring authors to sign over copyright is a known pattern worth watching for in this field generally. We don't do that, and this page exists partly so that claim isn't just asserted; it's specific and checkable.
Preservation
An article that stops being accessible five years after publication has failed at the one thing a journal is supposed to guarantee over a blog post or a LinkedIn article: permanence. We treat that as a founding commitment, not an afterthought.
Journal title change: November 2026. The journal is now titled Undeterred Journal, published by Undeterred Press. It was previously published under the title Undeterred Press; the new title separates the journal from its publisher. URLs and DOIs are unchanged. Following standard practice for journal title changes, articles published before the change (Volume 1, Issue 1) remain cited under the original title, Undeterred Press, and its ISSN, 3144-2218. Articles published from now on appear under Undeterred Journal. We have asked the U.S. ISSN Center whether the new title requires a new ISSN; this page will be updated when they respond.
Where things currently stand: our ISSN is 3144-2218, assigned by the U.S. ISSN Center at the Library of Congress (application ref. APPL0007436). We are also a registered Crossref member (prefix 10.68353), and every article published to date carries a permanent DOI: Ten Years Hence (10.68353/ten-years-hence), The Undeterred Press (10.68353/founding-editorial), Rethinking Dissertation Rigor in Small-Business Public Policy (10.68353/rethinking-dissertation-rigor), and Unleashing the Hidden Goldmine of Practitioner Insight (10.68353/hidden-goldmine), alongside third-party indexing through Google Scholar and beyond. All of this is noted plainly rather than claimed as complete before it is. Formal redundant archival (the kind provided by services like LOCKSS or CLOCKSS, which mirror a journal's content across independent library systems so it survives even if the journal itself someday doesn't) is a goal we're pursuing as the journal's footprint grows, not yet in place. This page will be updated the day any of that changes.
SSRN Cross-Listing
As a further step toward reach and permanence, every article published on Undeterred Press is subsequently submitted to SSRN (the Social Science Research Network), a widely used open repository across business, economics, law, and public policy research. The Undeterred Press version remains the original, canonical publication; the SSRN listing cites back to it directly, so anyone who finds the work through SSRN can trace it to its source here. This happens as standard practice, not an author opt-in, and there is no cost to authors or to readers at either location.
See also: Corrections & Retractions Policy, for what happens to a published article's permanent record if an error is found after publication.