Open Access (OA) is the practice of providing unrestricted access via the Internet to peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles. Its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing.

AFRJBS using a Diamond Open Access model. All articles published in AFRJBS journal are available to readers completely free of charge. Articles become available online immediately upon publication. Author(s) retain copyright of their work, but readers are free to reuse the material (providing proper citations are given), as all AFRJBS articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY).

By using a liberal copyright license, Open Access removes barriers and allows researchers to make use of articles in new ways. This includes practices like meta-analysis and text mining, which help reveal trends in science that would not be obvious at the level of individual articles.