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Hitit Journal of Social Sciences has upheld a policy of not mandating authors to relinquish their copyright to our publication. Authors (or their employers) retain full copyright ownership of their articles. Our sole requirement from authors is to grant permission for publication under the CC BY-NC license. All articles published by Hitit Journal of Social Sciences are released as open access, allowing for unrestricted reuse in accordance with the terms of the CC BY-NC open access license, irrespective of the source of research funding.

Authors retain the copyright of their works published in Hitit Journal of Social Sciences, and their works are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). The CC BY-NC 4.0 license allows for sharing, copying, reproduction, and adaptation of the work in any medium or format, excluding commercial use, provided appropriate attribution is given to the original work. This license also permits modification, transformation, and building upon the work, including adaptation, as long as it is appropriately attributed.

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1) Authors read this agreement when uploading their work to our journal's online system and upload a wet-signed copy to the journal system (Copyright Notice Text).
2) That the submitted article is the original work of the author(s) and that they have not plagiarized,
3) All authors have individually participated in this study and take full responsibility for this study,
4) All authors have seen and approved the final version of the submitted manuscript,
5) The article has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere,
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7) Authors authorize this Journal to publish the article and to identify itself as the original publisher.
8) Authors grant any third party the right to use the article freely, as long as the original authors and citation details are identified.
9) Nothing in this license impairs or restricts an author's right to protect the integrity and ownership of their work.
10) All commercial rights related to the article belong to the authors.

Open Access License of Hitit Journal of Social Sciences: CC BY-NC
Licence: CC BY-NC
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Open Access is when publications are freely available to anyone online, with few restrictions on reuse. The unrestricted dissemination of research is especially important for authors, readers and funders. Articles published in Hitit Journal of Social Sciences are published as open access under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. Hitit Journal of Social Sciences believes that for open access to work effectively, user rights and copyright ownership through licensing must be clear. Hitit Journal of Social Sciences is a signatory to the Budapest Declaration on Open Access.

We publish all our articles under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0). The CC BY-NC license is indicated in the articles. The full texts of all articles published in Hitit Journal of Social Sciences can be accessed by anyone via instant open access viewing at https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/hititsbd.

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Last Update Time: 10/9/23, 4:05:16 PM
Hitit Journal of Social Sciences is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY NC).