1) Open Access Statement

The Critical Communication Studies Journal provides immediate, free, and unrestricted access to all of its content. The journal adopts the principle that the free circulation of knowledge accelerates the advancement of science and follows an open access policy in line with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). Accordingly, anyone may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, and use them for any lawful purpose.

2) Fee Policy (APC)

The journal charges no submission, evaluation, page layout, or article processing fees (APC). The publishing process is completely free for both authors and readers.

3) Copyright and Licensing

Authors retain copyright of their work and grant the journal the right of first publication.

Unless otherwise stated, all articles are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

The CC BY 4.0 license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, including for commercial purposes, provided the original work is properly cited.

The license information is displayed clearly and machine-readable (through HTML meta tags and license icons/statements on PDF files).

4) Self-Archiving and Version Policy

The journal allows authors to archive the following versions of their work without embargo:

Preprint (before peer review),

Author’s Accepted Manuscript (AAM) (after peer review, before typesetting),

Version of Record (VoR) (final published version).
We encourage authors to provide a permanent link (DOI, handle, etc.) to the published version and to indicate the license (CC BY 4.0) when sharing.

5) Archiving and Digital Preservation

The content of the journal is preserved through the DergiPark infrastructure, with long-term archiving supported by systems such as LOCKSS/CLOCKSS/PKP PN, ensuring permanent access and integrity of the articles.

6) Open Data, Software, and Supplementary Materials

The journal encourages authors to share their research data, software, and supplementary materials as openly as possible. Authors are expected to deposit such materials in appropriate disciplinary or institutional repositories and cite them with permanent links (DOI, handle, etc.) within the article. In cases of confidentiality, ethical concerns, or third-party rights, exceptions must be clarified in a note to the article.

7) Metadata and Indexing

Article metadata (title, author(s), ORCID, abstract, keywords, references, and license information) are provided as open metadata and are made available for indexing through OAI-PMH and similar protocols. The journal commits to supplying article-level metadata to all indexing services.