Open Access Policy

Open Access, Licensing, and Copyright Policy

Journal of Emerging Educational Studies (JEES) is committed to the long-term, sustainable dissemination of high-quality educational research. We believe that making research freely available to the global community fosters a richer worldwide exchange of knowledge.

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1. Open Access Statement

JEES is a fully Open Access journal, meaning that all content is freely available without charge to the user or their institution. In accordance with the peer-reviewed definition established by the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), users are granted the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without requiring prior permission from the publisher or the author.

JEES strictly adheres to the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing jointly outlined by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA).

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2. Licensing Policy (CC BY-NC 4.0)

All articles published in JEES are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) License.

This license permits users to:

  • Share: Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
  • Adapt: Remix, transform, and build upon the material.

Under the following terms:

  • Attribution: You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.
  • Non-Commercial: You may not use the material for commercial purposes. Any commercial use of the published content requires explicit written permission from the publisher and the authors.

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3. Copyright and Author Rights

Unlike traditional publishing models, JEES champions author ownership. Authors publishing with JEES retain the full copyright and publishing rights of their work without any restrictions.

By submitting a manuscript, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive license to publish and identify itself as the original publisher. Anyone is free to use the articles under the CC BY-NC 4.0 terms, provided that the original authors and the journal are properly credited.

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4. Self-Archiving and Repository Policy

JEES encourages authors to archive and share their work to maximize academic impact. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their conversion versions of the manuscript (Publisher's PDF version) in institutional repositories or personal academic profiles (e.g., ResearchGate, Academia.edu, ORCID) without any embargo period, in full compliance with our digital preservation protocols. For more details on our digital preservation systems, please see our dedicated Archiving Policy.

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5. Permanent Record and Post-Publication Retractions

Once an article is published open-access in JEES, it becomes a permanent part of the scientific record. In compliance with open-access publishing integrity, articles cannot be removed, deleted, or "withdrawn" from the platform simply upon request.

If severe ethical misconduct, data fabrication, or plagiarism is proven post-publication, the journal will strictly apply the COPE Retraction Guidelines. The article metadata and PDF will remain accessible but will be formally watermarked as "RETRACTED". For the detailed legal and editorial steps of this process, please review our Manuscript Withdrawal & Retraction Policy.