The Vakanüvis Journal is committed to promoting the dissemination of high-quality research in the social sciences through a strong open access policy. All published content is freely accessible to researchers, scholars, students, and the public worldwide without financial, legal, or technical restrictions.

1. Licensing and Copyright

All articles published in the Vakanüvis Journal are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. This license permits users to share and distribute the work, provided that proper credit is given to the authors and the journal. The work may not be used for commercial purposes or modified.

Authors retain full copyright of their manuscripts while granting the journal the right to publish and distribute them.

2. Accessibility

The journal’s open access policy is aligned with the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), declared on February, 14,2002.. BOAI defines open access as follows: https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/sign/signatures/

“By ‘open access’ to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.”

Within the scope of BOAI, the Vakanüvis Journal:

Makes all articles available immediately upon publication with no embargo period.

Requires no subscription fees or paywalls for access.

Ensures that authors retain control over the integrity of their work and receive proper attribution.

3. Archiving and Preservation

To ensure long-term preservation and accessibility, the journal:

Utilizes institutional and national digital repositories,

Assigns DOI numbers to all articles for permanent citation and access.

4. Fee Policy

The Vakanüvis Journal receives no financial support from any institution and continues its publication solely through the contributions of its authors.

Therefore, an Article Processing Fee is required for all submissions, regardless of the publication decision.

Editorial Processing Fee: 5,000.00 TRY

IBAN: TR51 0006 4000 0012 0003 5939 59
Account Holder: Tufan Turan
Bank: Türkiye İş Bankası

Payments are non-refundable. The evaluation process begins once the payment is confirmed.

5. Compliance with Open Access Standards

The journal adheres to the open access standards outlined by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and other international indexing bodies. Transparency, ethical publishing, and open knowledge dissemination are core journal principles.

6. Benefits of Open Access

Enhances research visibility and citation potential.

Promotes knowledge exchange and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Supports equitable global access to academic research, including in under-resourced regions.