The Journal of Soft Computing and Artificial Intelligence (JSCAI) is an open access journal. The journal provides immediate, free, and permanent access to all published articles without subscription, registration, embargo, or access fees.
JSCAI supports the principle that scholarly research should be freely available to researchers, students, professionals, institutions, and the public.
Open Access Policy
All articles published in JSCAI are freely and permanently available online immediately after publication.
Readers may access, read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and link to the full texts of published articles in accordance with the terms of the journal’s license.
The journal does not apply any embargo period.
No subscription, payment, registration, or login is required to access published content.
Published articles are made available through the journal’s official page on the DergiPark platform.
Copyright Policy
Authors retain the copyright of their published articles.
JSCAI does not require authors to transfer full copyright ownership to the journal or publisher.
By submitting a manuscript to JSCAI, authors agree that, if the manuscript is accepted for publication, it will be published as an open access article under the journal’s licensing terms.
Authors grant JSCAI the non-exclusive right of first publication and the right to publish, distribute, archive, preserve, index, and make the article permanently available in all formats.
The authors remain responsible for the originality, accuracy, ethical compliance, and scientific integrity of their published work.
Licensing Policy
Articles published in JSCAI are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0), unless otherwise stated.
This license allows users to copy, distribute, display, and adapt the published work for non-commercial purposes, provided that proper credit is given to the original author(s), the journal, and the source of publication.
The license information must be clearly displayed on the article webpage and in the published article PDF.
User Rights
Under the terms of the CC BY-NC 4.0 license, users may use published articles for non-commercial purposes, including:
Reading and downloading
Copying and sharing
Printing
Linking to the article
Using the article in teaching and research
Depositing the article in institutional or personal repositories
Adapting or building upon the work for non-commercial purposes
Users must provide appropriate citation and attribution when using published content.
Commercial use is not permitted without appropriate permission.
Author Rights
Authors retain the right to use their published articles for academic, educational, and non-commercial purposes.
Authors may:
Share the published article
Deposit the published version in institutional repositories
Deposit the published version in subject repositories
Share the article on personal or institutional websites
Use the article in teaching and academic presentations
Include the article in theses, dissertations, or academic reports
Use the article in future scholarly work with proper citation
Authors must cite the published version of the article when reusing or sharing their work.
Article-Level Copyright and License Information
Each published article should clearly include copyright and license information.
The following statement may be used in the published article PDF:
Copyright © The Author(s). Published by Journal of Soft Computing and Artificial Intelligence. The author(s) retain copyright. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
This statement should appear in the published article PDF and, where possible, on the article webpage.
No Access Barriers
JSCAI does not charge readers for access to published content.
The journal does not require:
Subscription fees
Registration fees
Login requirements for reading articles
Institutional access permissions
Embargo periods
All published content is freely accessible through the journal’s official DergiPark page.
Self-Archiving
Authors are permitted to deposit the published version of their articles in institutional repositories, subject repositories, personal websites, academic networking platforms, and research information systems for non-commercial purposes.
When depositing or sharing the article, authors should provide the full citation, DOI, journal name, and link to the published version.
Self-archiving must comply with the terms of the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
Relation with Other Journal Policies
This policy should be read together with the journal’s Author Guidelines, Ethical Principles and Publication Policy, Peer Review Policy, Price Policy, and Data Availability and Repository Policy.
Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscript, data, figures, tables, supplementary materials, and reused content comply with copyright, licensing, ethical, and legal requirements.
Final Statement
JSCAI is committed to open access publishing, author rights, transparent licensing, long-term accessibility, and responsible scholarly communication.
The journal ensures that all published articles remain freely available to readers and that authors retain copyright under the stated Creative Commons license.