OPEN ACCESS POLICY

21st Century Education and Society International Journal of Refereed Educational Sciences and Social Studies, as a journal aware of the fact that information must be easily accessible for the advancement of scientific studies, supports the initiative of open access of peer-reviewed journal literature included in the Budapest Open Access Declaration and offers all published articles in an environment where everyone can read and download them free of charge. In this declaration, open access is used in the sense of “the scientific literature can be accessed, read, saved, copied, printed, scanned, linked to full text, indexed, transferred to software as data and used for all kinds of lawful purposes via the Internet without financial, legal and technical barriers”. Considering the role of knowledge sharing in the advancement of science, open access is of great importance for researchers and readers. For this reason, articles in this journal can be used as long as the author and original source are cited. Permission from authors or publishers is not required. Articles in this journal can be accessed via search engines, websites, blogs and other digital platforms.

These open access policies, which were accepted on September 12, 2012 and adopted by our editorial board, can be accessed at http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai-10-translations/turkish-translation.

21st Century Education and Society International Refereed Journal of Educational Sciences and Social Research does not charge any subscription fee, publication fee or similar payment for access to electronic and printed resources.

Creative Commons

Creative Commons license is a type of public copyright license that allows a copyrighted work or study to be distributed free of charge. When an author wants to share or grant the right to make changes to the work they have created, they use the CC license.

21st Century Education and Society International Refereed Journal of Educational Sciences and Social Research finds the "Creative Commons Attribution License (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND)" license appropriate for all published articles.

This license allows other authors to use your work in their own works, for non-commercial purposes and provided that your work is cited.

Open access is an approach that reinforces interdisciplinary development and encourages collaboration between different disciplines. For this reason, the JOURNAL contributes to its field by providing more access to its articles and a more transparent review process.

ETHICAL POLICY

It is aimed for all stakeholders (authors, editors, referees, publishers and readers) who present a scientific study to contribute to the correct progress of science. In accordance with this goal, compliance with scientific ethical principles is important in scientific studies prepared.

These ethical principles have been accepted by us based on the guidelines prepared by COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) and are suggested to be adopted by stakeholders, and some of them are presented below.

Ethical Responsibilities of Authors

To ensure the accuracy of the data related to the study, to keep the records related to the research organized and to be able to provide access to these data upon a possible request.

To ensure that the submitted article has not been published or accepted elsewhere.

To acknowledge and cite the conflict if the content he/she presents matches the published or submitted content, to provide the editor with a copy of any work that may have similar content to his/her work, to obtain permission to reproduce or use any content from other sources, and to show references.

To ensure that all studies involving human or animal subjects comply with national and international laws and guidelines (e.g. WMA Declaration of Helsinki, NIH Policy on the Use of Laboratory Animals, EU Directive on the Use of Animals), to confirm that the necessary approvals have been obtained, to respect subject confidentiality. To indicate the relevant ethics committee approvals and research details regarding his/her work in the “Materials and Methods” section of the work.

In case of any conflict of interest, to share this with the editor and publisher when he/she detects an ethical violation regarding his/her article, to publish an error statement, addendum, compensation statement or to withdraw the study when deemed necessary.

Ethical Duties and Responsibilities of Editors

To act in a balanced, objective and fair manner while performing their duties, without discrimination based on gender, religious or political beliefs, ethnic or geographical origins of the authors.

To evaluate the studies submitted to the journal according to their content, not to show any privilege to any author.

To take the necessary measures to prevent possible conflicts of interest and to evaluate existing statements, if any.

To compare sponsored studies or studies on special topics with other studies