Publishing open access in this journal

Since 2011, the year when the International Review of Social Research (IRSR) started its activity, we published only under an OPEN ACCESS regime. Publishing under the OPEN ACCESS guidelines offers a great number of benefits, including the fast diffusion of scientific knowledge produced by the work we publish.

International Review of Social Research (IRSR) is an open access journal, which means that all non-commercial use and distribution in any medium is permitted, without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to use the content of the journal under the condition of mentioning the source. Downloading, reading, using and sharing the content are encouraged without asking prior permission from the publisher or the authors.

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 BOAI definition of open access.  The licensing policy is compatible with the majority of global policies regarding open access. 

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Fees and Funding

To publish in International Review of Social Research (IRSR) authors are not required to pay article processing charges (APC) nor submission fees.

Creative Commons licenses

International Review of Social Research (IRSR) articles are published open access under a CC BY license (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license). The CC BY license is the most open license available and considered the industry ‘gold standard’ for open access; it is also preferred by many funders. This license allows readers to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, and to alter, transform, or build upon the material, including for commercial use, providing the original author is credited.

The journal is licensed by Creative Commons Attribution  International CC-BY.