Open Access Policy
The Journal of Contemporary Social Sciences (TJCSS) is a fully open access journal. All articles published by the journal are freely and permanently available online immediately after publication. Readers are not required to pay, subscribe, or register to access, read, download, copy, print, search, link to, or share the published content.
TJCSS does not impose any embargo period. The full text of every published article is available through the journal website immediately after publication.
The journal publishes its articles under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, commonly known as CC BY 4.0. Subject to the terms of this license, users may:
- Read and download articles
- Copy and redistribute published material
- Share articles through websites and repositories
- Print published articles
- Use articles for teaching and research
- Translate the published material
- Adapt or build upon the material
- Use the material for any lawful purpose
Users must give appropriate credit to the original author or authors, provide the title and source of the work, include a link to the applicable license, and indicate whether any changes were made. Reuse must not suggest that the authors or TJCSS endorse the user or the adapted work.
Authors may deposit the submitted manuscript, accepted manuscript, or published version of their article in:
- Institutional repositories
- Subject repositories
- Personal websites
- Academic networking platforms
- Research databases
- Other lawful digital archives
Authors may deposit their work without an embargo, provided that the original publication in TJCSS is properly acknowledged and linked.
The journal applies no technical or legal restrictions beyond the conditions of the applicable open license. The complete terms of the license are available on the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International page.
This policy supports the free exchange of social science research and is consistent with the principles of open access scholarly publishing.
