Open Access Policy

The Linguistic Journal firmly believes in the principle of open access to scientific knowledge as one of the most important pillars for promoting and developing scientific research on a broad scale. Accordingly, the journal adopts the following policies:

  1. Immediate and Free Access: All articles published in the Linguistics Journal are made freely and immediately available to everyone upon publication, without any subscription fees or access barriers. Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to the full texts of articles, or use them for any other legal purpose without prior permission from the publisher or author, provided the original source is properly credited.

  2. License: All articles published in the Linguistics Journal are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license . This license allows others to reuse and adapt the work, provided they appropriately credit the original source, provide a link to the license, and indicate if any changes were made. This means that the work can be distributed, copied, displayed, performed, modified, and built upon, even for commercial purposes, as long as the original author is credited.

  3. Intellectual Property and Copyright: Authors retain full copyright to their works published in the Linguistics Journal. However, the authors grant the journal first publication rights under a Creative Commons Attribution license, allowing others to share and use the work in accordance with the license terms mentioned above.

  4. Content Archiving: The journal is committed to ensuring long-term archiving of published content to ensure continued access to research. This is achieved through collaboration with digital repositories and initiatives that support open archiving, ensuring that research remains accessible and preserved for future generations.

  5. Journal Commitment: The Open Access Policy reflects the Journal's commitment to disseminating scholarly knowledge as widely as possible, supporting the global research community, and promoting the unrestricted exchange of ideas and discoveries.