Articles published in the RTEU Journal of Social Sciences (e-ISSN: 2149-2239) are digitally archived in LOCKSS. In addition, published articles can be made accessible by the author in the institutional archive of the university where he/she works, in subject archives or in any other archive without an embargo period. Thus, everyone can access this publication free of charge.

The publisher of the RTEU Journal of Social Sciences, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University, has the following archive policy in accordance with its policy of supporting the dissemination of research results:
RTEU Journal of Social Sciences allows authors to use the final published version of an article (publisher pdf) for self-archiving (author's personal website) and/or for archiving in an institutional repository after publication.
Authors can self-archive their articles in public and/or commercial subject-based archives. There is no embargo period, but the published source must be stated and a link to the journal homepage or the DOI of the articles must be set.
Authors can download the output of the article as a PDF document. Authors may send copies of the article to their colleagues without any embargo. RTEU Journal of Social Sciences allows all versions of the articles (Submitted version, accepted version, published version) to be deposited in an institutional or other repository of the author's choice without any embargo.