Author Archiving and Self-Archiving Policy

Mergen Future Thought Leaders is an open-access journal. Unless otherwise stated, all articles published in the journal are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Authors may deposit, preserve, and share different versions of their articles on personal websites, institutional repositories, subject-based academic repositories, and non-commercial scholarly platforms in accordance with this policy and the terms of the applicable license.

The journal does not impose an embargo period on self-archiving.

Sharing and Reuse of Open-Access Content

Content published in the journal may be shared, reproduced, and adapted provided that:

• Appropriate attribution is given;
• Mergen Future Thought Leaders is clearly identified as the place of first publication;
• The content is not used for commercial purposes; and
• Any changes made to the original work are clearly indicated.

When depositing an article in a repository or publishing it on a website, authors must provide the complete bibliographic citation and the official DergiPark URL of the published article.

As the journal does not currently assign DOIs, the official DergiPark article URL shall be used to provide access to the final published version. If the journal begins assigning DOIs, the relevant DOI must also be added to deposited versions.

Article Versions

1. Author’s Original Manuscript

AOM / Preprint

The Author’s Original Manuscript is the version of the article prepared before it is submitted to the journal for peer review. This version has not yet undergone peer review, editorial evaluation, language editing, typesetting, or journal formatting.

Authors may share this version on:

• Personal websites;
• Institutional repositories;
• Non-commercial preprint servers; and
• Non-commercial scholarly collaboration platforms.

The deposit of a manuscript on a preprint server is not, by itself, regarded as duplicate or prior publication. However, publicly sharing a preprint may make the author’s identity indirectly identifiable during the double-blind peer-review process. Authors must therefore inform the editorial office of any preprint shared before submission or during the evaluation process.

Once the article has been accepted for publication, authors are encouraged to add the following statement to the preprint record:

“This manuscript has been accepted for publication in Mergen Future Thought Leaders.”

After publication, this statement should be updated to include the official DergiPark URL of the final published article.

2. Accepted Manuscript

AM

The Accepted Manuscript is the version that has completed peer review and all required revisions and has been formally accepted for publication by the editorial office, but has not yet undergone the journal’s final copyediting, typesetting, page layout, or formatting processes.

Authors may deposit the Accepted Manuscript in non-commercial repositories immediately after receiving the acceptance decision, without any embargo period.

The following statement must be included in the deposited Accepted Manuscript:

“This is the accepted manuscript version of an article accepted for publication in Mergen Future Thought Leaders. It has undergone peer review but does not include the journal’s final typesetting and layout.”

After the article has been published, the Accepted Manuscript record should be updated to include:

• The name of the author or authors;
• The full article title;
• The journal title;
• The year of publication;
• Volume and issue information;
• Page range;
• E-ISSN; and
• The official DergiPark article URL.

3. Version of Record

VoR

The Version of Record is the final, definitive, and citable version of the article that has completed the peer-review and editorial processes and has been published on DergiPark following language editing, typesetting, page layout, and the addition of publication metadata.

Authors may share the final published PDF on:

• Personal websites;
• Institutional repositories;
• University or research institution repositories; and
• Non-commercial scholarly sharing platforms,

provided that such sharing complies with the conditions of the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

When the Version of Record is shared, the original publication in Mergen Future Thought Leaders must be clearly acknowledged, and the official DergiPark article URL must be provided.

The following statement is recommended:

“The Version of Record of this article was published in Mergen Future Thought Leaders. The original publication is available through the official DergiPark article URL.”

Linking Different Versions of an Article

Where a preprint or Accepted Manuscript has previously been shared, authors are encouraged to update those records and link them to the Version of Record after publication.

The following statement may be added, as appropriate:

“This document is the Author’s Original Manuscript version of an article subsequently published in Mergen Future Thought Leaders.”

or:

“This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of an article subsequently published in Mergen Future Thought Leaders.”

The full bibliographic citation and official DergiPark URL of the published article must be provided after the statement.

Accurate Citation and Attribution

Deposited or redistributed versions of an article must include the following information:

• The name of the author or authors;
• The full title of the article;
• The full title of the journal;
• The year of publication;
• Volume and issue information;
• Page range;
• E-ISSN: 3108-513X;
• The official DergiPark article URL; and
• The applicable license: CC BY-NC 4.0.

If the journal begins assigning DOIs, the DOI must also be added to the bibliographic record and all deposited versions.

Corrections and Retractions

Where a correction, editorial notice, or retraction has been issued in relation to an article, authors must also update copies deposited in personal or institutional repositories.

A retracted article must not be shared in a manner that conceals its retracted status. The repository record must clearly indicate that the article has been retracted and must include a reference or link to the current retraction notice published by the journal.

Journal Archiving Practices

The final full texts of published articles, the masthead and table of contents of each issue, and the relevant bibliographic metadata are preserved within the DergiPark system and made continuously accessible to readers.

Authors are also encouraged to retain copies of the submitted, accepted, and published versions of their articles in their personal or institutional archives.