Journal of Political Administrative and Local Studies has been publishing all articles under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license since it started publishing. This license means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition of open access.

"Open Access" is a term that covers both Gratis and Libre Open Access. While "Gratis" open access means free online access, "libre" open access means free online access as well as some usage rights.
Journal of Political Administrative and Local Studies, in addition, to publishing scientific research, offers this research free of charge by adopting the principle that providing information free of charge will increase its global sharing and the policy of providing open access. Moreover, it provides instant open access to its content.
The journal is open access, and the entire content of the journal is provided free of charge to the reader or to the organization to which the reader belongs. Without permission from the publisher or the author and except for commercial purposes, the readers can read, download, copy, search, and provide links to the full text of the journal articles. They can also rearrange them, provided that the original work is properly cited.

This policy is in line with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition, and Journal of Political Administrative and Local Studies has also signed the BOAI.
(Ref. http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/list_signatures/)



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