Open Access Statement

Educatum: Journal of Education Studies adopts an open access publishing model that provides immediate, free, unrestricted, and permanent access to all published articles. All scholarly content published by the journal is freely available online immediately after publication without subscription fees, paywalls, or other access barriers.

This open access policy reflects Educatum's commitment to promoting the accessibility, visibility, dissemination, and global exchange of educational research among researchers, academics, educators, practitioners, policymakers, students, and the wider community.

Educatum follows the principles of open access publishing by supporting the free availability of scholarly knowledge and enabling users to access, read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to, reuse, and adapt published articles in accordance with the terms of the applicable license.

License and User Rights

All articles published in Educatum: Journal of Education Studies are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

The CC BY 4.0 license permits users to:

  • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format;

  • Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercial purposes;

  • Reuse and reproduce the published content provided that appropriate attribution is given to the original work.

Users must provide appropriate credit to the original author(s), cite the original publication in Educatum: Journal of Education Studies, provide a link to the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), and indicate whether any modifications have been made.

Copyright and Author Rights

Authors retain copyright ownership of their published works. By publishing with Educatum: Journal of Education Studies, authors grant the journal the right of first publication and the right to distribute the article under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

The journal does not transfer copyright ownership from authors and does not restrict authors from sharing, archiving, depositing, or reusing their published works according to the terms of the applicable license.

Third-Party Materials

Authors are responsible for obtaining appropriate permissions for any copyrighted materials included in their manuscripts, including figures, tables, images, instruments, datasets, or other materials belonging to third parties.

The reuse of third-party materials published within articles remains subject to the copyright and licensing conditions established by the respective rights holders.

Open Access Commitment

Educatum is committed to maintaining a transparent, sustainable, and accessible open access publishing model that supports the advancement of educational research and facilitates the global exchange of scholarly knowledge.