Open Access Policy

Lectio Socialis is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License.

  • Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  • Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  • Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform the work and make derivative works and remixes based on it only if they give the author or licensor the credits (attribution) in the manner specified by these.

Lectio Socialis provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Lectio Socialis has signed the Budapest Open Access Initiative.

Articles published in this journal are digitally archived in LOCKSS. The LOCKSS system has permission to collect, preserve and present this access Archive Unit.


Repository Policy
The Journal allows authors to deposit versions of their work in an institutional or another repository.
Publisher: Emrah Konuralp
Title: Lectio Socialis
e-ISSN: 2602-2443

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 the print of the article as a PDF document. Authors may send copies of the article to colleagues without embargo.
4. The publisher allows all versions of papers (Submitted version, Accepted version, Published version) to be deposited in an institutional or another repository of the author’s choice without embargo.

Published Version (Version of Record)
OA Publishing
This pathway includes Open Access publishing
OAI: https://dergipark.org.tr/api/public/oai/lectio/
RSS: http://dergipark.org.tr/lectio/rss-feeds
LOCKSS: http://dergipark.org.tr/lectio/lockss-manifest
Embargo: No Embargo
License CC BY-NC 4.0
Copyright: 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.

Lectio Socialis is an international peer-reviewed journal on social sciences, humanities and arts. The journal welcomes articles mainly from the disciplines of economics; political science; public administration; business administration; international relations; urban planning; sociology; psychology; linguistics; literature; history; jurisprudence; philosophy; archaeology; anthropology; comparative religion; ethics; the history, criticism and theory of the arts.

The major objective of Lectio Socialis is to maintain a vibrant and independent environment for scholars and researchers from different regions of the globe.


Creative Commons License
Lectio Socialis is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.