Copyright And License

Indonesian Social Science Review (ISSR) is an open-access journal committed to protecting the intellectual property rights of authors while promoting the widest possible dissemination of scholarly research. All articles published by ISSR are made freely available to readers, researchers, and institutions worldwide without financial or subscription barriers.


Copyright Ownership

Authors who publish with Indonesian Social Science Review (ISSR) retain the copyright of their work. Authors grant the journal the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons license allowing sharing and adaptation with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

Author Rights and Self-Archiving

Authors retain extensive rights regarding the self-archiving and distribution of their work, including the right to:

  • Post their accepted manuscript or final published PDF in institutional repositories, personal websites, or academic networking platforms (e.g., ResearchGate, Academia.edu).
  • Use the article in presentations, teaching, or scholarly books authored or edited by themselves.
  • Grant any third party the right to use the article independently of ISSR, provided proper citation to the original work is maintained.

Licensing Terms (Creative Commons)

Articles published in ISSR are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC-BY-SA 4.0) license.

This 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, even commercially, under the condition that they distribute their contributions under the same license.

User and Third-Party Obligations

Users are free to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of all articles without seeking prior permission from the publisher or the authors, provided that proper attribution and full bibliographic citations (title, author, volume, issue, year, and DOI) are given to the original work.