The International Journal of Social Science Research (IJSSR) is a fully open access journal. All published scholarly articles are freely available online immediately upon publication.

No subscription, payment or registration is required to read or access the full text of any published article, and no embargo period applies.

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In accordance with the open licence applicable to the article, users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search and link to the full text of published articles. Articles may also be crawled for indexing, used as data by software and used for any other lawful purpose, subject to the terms of the applicable licence.

Open Access Licence

IJSSR publishes scholarly articles under an open Creative Commons licence. The applicable licence, together with the conditions for use and reuse, is stated on the Licensing Terms page and on each published article.

This policy ensures immediate and unrestricted access to the scholarly content published by the journal while preserving appropriate acknowledgement of the authors and the original source.