Open Access Policy
- What open access means
- License and copyright
- Our commitments
- Self-archiving
- When this policy applies
KUJHSS provides immediate open access to its content, on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
What open access means
Open access means that research publications are freely available online, with no barriers to reading them. It helps your work reach the widest possible audience and lets other researchers use and share it easily.
License and copyright
- KUJHSS articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
- Authors retain copyright.
- If you remix, transform or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.
- Commercial use of the publisher's PDF is subject to license fees.
Our commitments
- Koya University supports the principles and objectives of Open Access and Open Science.
- KUJHSS expects authors to make the most of every opportunity to make their final peer-reviewed results freely available.
- Every accepted paper is published open access online soon after the final stage of peer review.
- All accepted papers are published and archived open access on the KUJHSS website.
Self-archiving
Authors may share every version of their paper, at any time and with no embargo:
- the submitted version (pre-print), including before and during submission;
- the accepted version after peer review (post-print);
- the published version (the publisher's PDF).
They may post these in any repository, on their own or their institution's website, and on academic networks. Once the paper is published, please cite it and link to it with its DOI.
When this policy applies
This policy has applied since 1 October 2017.
How authors comply with this policy is explained in the Author Guidelines.
