Open Access Policy

The Journal of Communication and Social Studies (JCSS) is an open access, double-blind peer-reviewed journal.

Each article accepted by peer review is made freely available online immediately upon publication, is published under a Creative Commons license and will be hosted online in perpetuity. There is no charge for submitting a paper to the journal.
JCSS is published with the policy of transparency, open access and sharing of information in publishing. The Journal supports the Budapest Open Access Initiative. For this purpose, the open access policies available at https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read/ are adopted by the Editorial Board of the JCSS.

Copyright

Authors publishing with JCSS retain the copyright to their work licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0) and grant the journal exclusive commercial rights to publish the work. CC BY-NC 4.0 license permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Each publication at this Journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

You are free to:
Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material
The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.
Under the following terms:
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.

No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
Notices:
You do not have to comply with the license for elements of the material in the public domain or where your use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation.
No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material.

Further information and source: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.en