Socio-Cultural Strategy

Open Access Policy

A Quarterly Journal of Socio-Cultural Strategy is committed to providing open, immediate, and free access to published research findings and scholarly content. All scholarly articles published in the journal are made available to readers on an open access basis.

Open access in this journal means that the full text of articles is made publicly available through the journal’s website immediately upon official publication, without requiring a subscription, payment of any fee, account creation, or registration, and without any embargo period.

Access to Articles

All articles published in A Quarterly Journal of Socio-Cultural Strategy:

• Are made available on an open access basis immediately upon official publication;
• Can be read and downloaded free of charge, without a subscription or payment;
• Do not require registration or account creation to access the full text;
• Are not subject to any embargo period;
• Are freely available for reading and download through the journal’s website; and
• Have a dedicated webpage and a persistent URL on the journal’s website.

Readers and users may read, download, copy, distribute, and share published articles in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.

Licensing and Reuse

All articles published in A Quarterly Journal of Socio-Cultural Strategy are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.

Subject to compliance with the terms of this license, users are permitted to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, as well as remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided that:

1. Appropriate credit is given to the author or authors;
2. The title of the article and the original source are properly acknowledged;
3. A link to the CC BY-NC 4.0 license is provided;
4. Any modifications made to the original work are indicated; and
5. The material is not used for commercial purposes.

Any commercial use of an article or content covered by this license falls outside the scope of the permissions granted under the license and may require separate authorization from the relevant rights holder.

Copyright

Copyright in articles published in A Quarterly Journal of Socio-Cultural Strategy remains with the author or authors of each article.

By publishing an article in the journal, authors grant the journal the rights necessary to publish the article and make it available under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license. Publication in the journal does not constitute an exclusive transfer of copyright ownership to the publisher, unless otherwise stipulated in a separate written agreement between the author and the publisher.

Authors may use their work in accordance with the rights and conditions established by the CC BY-NC 4.0 license and the journal’s other policies.

Third-Party Content

If an article contains images, tables, datasets, figures, text, or other material owned by third parties and not covered by the article’s CC BY-NC 4.0 license, the copyright or licensing status of such material must be clearly indicated in the article.

Unless expressly stated otherwise, third-party content is not covered by the journal’s CC BY-NC 4.0 license, and its reuse may require permission from the relevant rights holder.

Commitment to Open Access

A Quarterly Journal of Socio-Cultural Strategy is committed to maintaining immediate and free access to its published articles and making their full texts publicly available without requiring a subscription, payment, registration, or account creation, and without imposing any embargo period.

This policy has been developed to facilitate broad and equitable access to scholarly findings for researchers, academics, professionals, policymakers, and other interested readers in the fields of culture, society, cultural studies, social studies, and related disciplines.