Open access statements

SS&H: Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. All articles published in Open Access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download.

SS&H is committed to promoting open access to scholarly research as a means of fostering global knowledge exchange and advancing scientific discovery. The journal provides immediate open access to its content, following the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Authors publishing in SS&H retain the copyright to their work and grant the journal a non-exclusive license to publish their article under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). This license allows others to freely distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the work, even commercially, as long as they credit the author(s) for the original creation.

SS&H also supports the archiving and preservation of scholarly content and encourages authors to deposit their published articles in institutional repositories or other open access databases to ensure long-term accessibility and visibility.

SS&H is committed to adhering to the highest standards of open access publishing and welcomes feedback from the academic community to continuously improve its open access policies and practices.