IBAD Journal of Social Sciences adopts the principle that providing free access to scientific research will enhance the global sharing of knowledge and therefore offers immediate open access to its content. Access to the journal is completely free. Since the first issue of the journal, all published articles have been open access. The journal follows the Budapest Open Access Initiative.

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Copyright Policy

Articles published in IBAD Journal of Social Sciences are made available under Creative Commons licenses. These licenses provide an industry-standard framework to support the easy reuse of open-access materials. Under Creative Commons licenses, authors retain the copyright of their articles. Articles published in IBAD Journal of Social Sciences are available as open access under either the CC BY-NC (Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License) or the CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License), depending on the author's preference. The license chosen by the author(s) will be included in the PDF version of the article.

Creative Commons licenses enable content creators to share their work while retaining certain rights. The fundamental difference between CC BY and CC BY-NC lies in permissions for commercial use.
CC BY (Attribution): Anyone may use, share, and modify the work for any purpose (commercial or non-commercial), provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author.
CC BY-NC (Attribution-NonCommercial): The work may only be used for non-commercial purposes. However, for commercial users or commercial use, permission must be obtained from the author(s). Proper attribution to the author remains mandatory.

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