Open Access Policy

Open Access Statement

Sayed Jamaluddin Afghani University International Journal of Social Sciences (SJAU-IJSS) is a fully open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by Sayed Jamaluddin Afghani University, Kunar, Afghanistan.

All published articles are freely and immediately available online to everyone without subscription, registration, or payment. Readers may access, read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to, and otherwise use the full text of published articles for lawful purposes in accordance with the applicable Creative Commons license.

SJAU-IJSS does not impose any embargo period on access to published articles. All scholarly content is made openly available immediately upon publication.

Copyright and Licensing

Authors retain copyright of their published work unless otherwise stated in the individual article or publishing agreement. Articles published in SJAU-IJSS are distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License, unless another license is clearly indicated on the individual article.

Under the CC BY 4.0 license, users may share and adapt the published material for lawful purposes provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s), the journal, and the source, and that any changes are indicated.

For more information about the CC BY 4.0 license, please refer to the official Creative Commons license terms.

Open Access and Reuse

SJAU-IJSS supports the principles of open access to scholarly knowledge and is committed to making research freely accessible to researchers, students, practitioners, institutions, and the public.

There are no charges for readers to access or download published articles. The journal does not require users to create an account or register in order to read the full text of its articles.

The journal permits authors and readers to access, share, and reuse published research in accordance with the applicable Creative Commons license and the journal's copyright and licensing policies.

ISSN (Online): 3105-3130

Publisher: Sayed Jamaluddin Afghani University, Kunar, Afghanistan