Uluslararası Halkbilimi Araştırmaları Dergisi (International Journal of Folklore Studies) supports the open access policy as it adopts the principle that making information freely available to the public will increase global knowledge sharing. Our journal, where access to information is free, implements the Budapest Open Access Policy.

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Open Access is the accessibility of publications to everyone online, free of charge and with few restrictions on reuse. The unrestricted dissemination of research is especially important for authors, readers and funders. Articles published in UHAD are published as open access under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. UHAD believes that for open access to work effectively, user rights and copyright ownership must be clear through licensing. 

Articles published in UHAD between 2021-2024 are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

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