Open Access Statement

The Journal of Social Sciences and Media Studies (JOSSAMS) is a fully Open Access journal. All published articles are freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication without subscription fees or access charges to readers or their institutions.

JOSSAMS follows the principles of Libre Open Access, ensuring that published content is accessible without financial barriers and that users’ rights are clearly defined through an open license. Readers are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to the full text of articles, and reuse the content for any lawful purpose in accordance with the terms of the journal’s Creative Commons License, without the need to obtain prior permission from the authors or the publisher.

All published articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, adaptation, and reproduction in any medium, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and the Journal of Social Sciences and Media Studies (JOSSAMS) as the original publisher.

JOSSAMS does not impose access barriers on readers and is committed to increasing the visibility, accessibility, and impact of scholarly research.