Afyon Kocatepe University Journal of Science and Engineering has adopted the policy of open access for the reason that it has adopted the principle that scientific studies are presented for the humanity freely and that information increases the global share. In this context, all the articles published in the journal are accessible on Dergipark.

Every single study published in the Journal of Science and Engineering has been licenced by Creative Commons International Licence (CC-BY-NC 4.0).

Journal of Kocatepe Islamic Sciences has adopted the principals and implementation of Budapest Open Access Initiative. Click here for the principals of the open access.

All of the studies published in our journal, with all their supplements, are open to free and continuous access in our journal archive

Repository Policy
The Journal allows authors to deposit versions of their work in an institutional or other repository.

1. The Publisher allows authors the use of the final published version of an article (publisher pdf) for self-archiving (author's personal website) and/or archiving in an institutional repository after publication.
2. Authors may self-archive their articles in public and/or commercial subject-based repositories. There is no embargo period but the published source must be acknowledged and a link to the journal home page or articles' DOI must be set.
3. Authors may download print of the article as a PDF document. Authors may send copies of the article to colleagues without embargo.
4. The publisher allow all versions of papers (Submitted version,
Accepted version, Published version) to be deposited in an institutional or other repository of the author’s choice without embargo.

Published Version (Version of Record)
This pathway includes Open Access publishing
RSS: https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/akufemubid/rss-feeds
LOCKSS: https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/akufemubid/lockss-manifest
Embargo: No Embargo
License CC BY-NC 4.0
Copyright: Owner Authors (Authors retain copyright, without restrictions)
Deposit: LOCKSS, Named Repository (Crossref), Journal Website, Institutional repository, Author's personal website, Public and/or commercial subject-based repositories.

Accepted Version (Author Accepted Manuscript)
Embargo: No
Deposit: LOCKSS, Named Repository (Crossref), Journal Website, Institutional repository, Author's personal website, Public and/or commercial subject-based repositories.

Submitted Version
Embargo: No
Deposit: LOCKSS, Named Repository (Crossref), Journal Website, Institutional repository, Author's personal website, Public and/or commercial subject-based repositories.