Open Access Policy

Journal of Philology and Codicology Cathexis Studies (JPCCS) is a fully open-access scholarly journal.

All published articles are made freely and immediately available online without subscription fees, paywalls, mandatory registration, or embargo periods.

Readers may access the full text of all published articles without charge.

JPCCS supports open access because the unrestricted dissemination of scholarly knowledge improves:

  • accessibility;
  • visibility;
  • scholarly communication;
  • research collaboration;
  • citation potential;
  • public engagement; and
  • global exchange of knowledge.

Licensing

Unless otherwise indicated for third-party material, articles published in JPCCS are licensed under:

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).

This license allows readers to share and adapt published materials for any lawful purpose, including commercial use, provided proper attribution is given and derivative works are distributed under the same license.

Copyright

Authors retain copyright in their work and grant JPCCS the right of first publication.

Reader Rights

Users may:

  • read articles online;
  • download full texts;
  • copy articles;
  • distribute articles;
  • print articles;
  • search article content;
  • link to published articles;
  • use articles for teaching and research;
  • adapt or transform material in accordance with CC BY-SA 4.0.

Self-Archiving

Authors are permitted to deposit:

  • submitted manuscripts;
  • accepted manuscripts; and
  • published versions of record

in:

  • institutional repositories;
  • subject repositories;
  • personal academic websites;
  • university repositories; and
  • other legitimate scholarly repositories.

JPCCS imposes no embargo period on self-archiving.

No Reader Charges

Readers are not charged for accessing or downloading articles published by JPCCS.

The journal's open-access policy applies immediately upon publication.