Open Access Policies

Journal of Life and Social Sciences 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. Journal of Life and Social Sciences is an “open access” journal that gives online access, free of charge, and other access barriers.  Journal of Life and Social Sciences publishes articles licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Journal of Life and Social Sciences supports the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing which defines an open access journal as one which grants a "free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit, and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship" and from which every article is "deposited immediately upon initial publication in at least one online repository".

As an open-access publication model, Journal of Life and Social Sciences enables the free-of-cost dissemination of refereed research to the global community. Journal of Life and Social Sciences is committed to achieving the highest quality of scientific research to drive progress in academic research with innovation. Journal of Life and Social Sciences partially levies article-publishing charges to cover the cost of the publication. Authors publishing with Journal of Life and Social Sciences retains the copyright to their work allowing the articles to be re-used and re-distributed without restriction, as long as the original work is correctly cited. Journal of Life and Social Sciences supports the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing. Journal of Life and Social Sciences has been helping students, scholars, researchers, professionals, scientific societies, and academic institutions to achieve their goals in an ever-changing world. By partnering with learned institutions and societies, Journal of Life and Social Sciences support researchers to communicate discoveries that make a difference.