Open Access and Copyright Policy

The International Journal of Language, Education and Society (IJLES) is an open access journal. All published content is freely available to readers and institutions without subscription or access fees.

🔹 Licensing and Usage
IJLES content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. In accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative, this license permits users to:

Read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and link to full-text articles

Reuse content for educational and scholarly purposes

Do so without prior permission, provided proper citation of the original publication is maintained

🔹 Author Rights
Authors retain full copyright and publishing rights of their work. By submitting to IJLES, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive license to publish and identify itself as the original publisher.

Authors also agree to the open-access distribution of their work under the CC BY 4.0 license, allowing third parties to reuse the content with appropriate attribution.

🔹 Self-Archiving
IJLES encourages authors to self-archive their work on:

Institutional repositories

Personal websites

Academic platforms such as ResearchGate and Academia.edu

Authors may use any version of their manuscript for self-archiving, including:

Pre-print

Post-print

Final published PDF

There is no embargo period for self-archiving. Authors may deposit their work immediately upon publication.