Copyright & License

Copyright

Authors who publish this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

  2. Authors can separately make additional contractual arrangements for non-exclusive distribution published by the journal (e.g., publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

  3. Authors are allowed and encouraged to send their work via online (e.g., in the institutional repositories or their website) after published by the journal.

What are my rights as author?
It is important to check the policy for the journal to which you are submitting or publishing to establish your rights as Author. Social Science Research Journal standard policies allow the following re-use rights:

  1. You may do whatever you wish with the version of the article you submitted to the journal.
  2. Once the article has been accepted for publication, you may post the accepted version of the article on your own personal website, your department's website, or the repository of your institution without any restrictions.
  3. You may not post the accepted version of the article in any repository other than those listed above (i.e., you may not deposit in the repository of another institution or a subject-matter repository) until 12 months after publication of the article in the journal.
  4. You may use the published article for your own teaching needs or to supply on an individual basis to research colleagues, provided that such supply is not for commercial purposes.
  5. You may use the article in a book authored or edited by you at any time after publication in the journal. This does not apply to books where you are contributing a chapter to a book authored or edited by someone else.
  6. You may not post the published article on a website or in a repository without permission from Social Science Research Journal.
  7. When posting or reusing the article, please provide a link to the published version of the article on Social Science Research Journal.

License

Social Science Research Journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- 4.0 International Public License (CC - BY 4.0).