This journal has adopted the policy of providing open access in light of the rules set by the Budapest Open Access Initiative. (https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read) Open access increases the global exchange of information and has beneficial consequences for humanity.

Motif Academy Journal of Folklore is a quarterly international peer-reviewed journal that shares scientific text with research, compilation, review, translation and presentation in both print and electronic media. Our readers all over the world can access the Motif Academy Journal of Folklore at https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/mahder and have free access to our archive, which consists of all our issues, in accordance with our open access policy.

License: CC BY-SA

This license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to “copyleft” free and open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use. This is the license used by Wikipedia, and is recommended for materials that would benefit from incorporating content from Wikipedia and similarly licensed projects.