Open Access Policy
Kocaeli University Journal of Social Sciences is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition of open access.

Licensing Policy
All content published in the journal is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Non Derivative (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International License which allows third parties to use the published version of content without making any modifications for non-commercial purposes as long as they give credit to the original work. This license permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any platform, provided that the article is properly cited, the usage is noncommercial, and no modifications or adaptations are made.promoting the dissemination and use of the research published in the journal.

All published content is available online, free of charge