The Journal of Social Sciences and Media Studies (JOSSAMS) supports the dissemination, accessibility, and preservation of scholarly research by allowing authors to deposit certain versions of their manuscripts in institutional repositories, subject repositories, personal academic websites, and other scholarly platforms.

Authors retain copyright of their published work and may share their research in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) under which all JOSSAMS articles are published.

Accepted Version (Author Accepted Manuscript)

Authors may deposit the final peer-reviewed manuscript accepted for publication by JOSSAMS (Author Accepted Manuscript) in institutional or subject repositories after acceptance. The deposited manuscript should acknowledge JOSSAMS as the journal of publication and should include, where available, the citation details and a link to the final published article.

Published Version (Version of Record)

Authors may deposit and share the final published version of their article (Version of Record) immediately upon publication in institutional repositories, subject repositories, personal academic websites, and other scholarly platforms.

As JOSSAMS publishes articles under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), the published version may be read, downloaded, copied, distributed, printed, shared, adapted, and reproduced in any medium or format, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and JOSSAMS as the original publisher.

All deposited versions must include complete bibliographic information, including the article title, author(s), journal title, volume, issue, year of publication, page numbers (where applicable), DOI (if available), and a link to the official version published on the JOSSAMS website.

JOSSAMS does not currently have a policy permitting the deposit of the submitted version (preprint) before completion of the peer-review process.