Open Access Policy

Journal of Social and Educational Research (JSER) adheres to the Budapest Open Access Initiative and defines its Open Access policy according to the definition developed in the original BOAI.

Journal of Social and Educational Research aims to promote the development of global Open Access to scientific information and research.

Journal of Social and Educational Research provides open access to all published content under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. This means that readers, researchers, and institutions are free to access, download, distribute, print, and reproduce the content in any medium for non-commercial purposes, as long as the original work is properly cited. Users are also permitted to create derivative works (such as translations or adaptations) based on the published content, provided that these new works are distributed under the same license. Commercial use of the content is not permitted without written permission from the editorial board. 

Furthermore, all published content is preserved through the LOCKSS and CLOCKSS digital archiving systems to ensure permanent availability and accessibility.

DOI Registration and Secondary Archiving via Zenodo

In addition to LOCKSS and CLOCKSS, JSER also ensures the preservation and interoperability of its content through Zenodo, an open-access repository operated by CERN and supported by DataCite, an official member of the International DOI Foundation (IDF).
Each article published in JSER receives a unique Digital Object Identifier (DOI) registered via Zenodo (DataCite), which ensures global discoverability, metadata persistence, and permanent linking to the official version of record on the JSER website.

Zenodo functions as JSER’s secondary digital archive, guaranteeing that all articles remain independently accessible and citable even if the main website is temporarily unavailable.
This multi-layered archiving policy demonstrates JSER’s commitment to long-term digital preservation and open-access sustainability.

Interoperability and Metadata Accessibility

JSER exposes its metadata openly to indexing and harvesting services such as Google Scholar, OpenAIRE, ERIH PLUS, ROAD, and others.
This supports full interoperability with the global open science infrastructure and ensures that JSER’s published research is widely visible, shareable, and permanently accessible.