OPEN ACCESS POLICY

  1. Open Access Statement

The Journal of Business Research–Turk is a peer-reviewed, fully open-access academic journal that supports the removal of financial and technical barriers to accessing scholarly knowledge and the use of published scholarly content under the terms of an open license.

The full texts of all research articles published in the Journal are available free of charge, continuously, and immediately from the date of publication. Accessing the Journal’s content does not require the payment of a subscription fee, the creation of a user account, institutional membership, or registration. No embargo period is applied to published content.

The Journal’s Open Access Policy has been prepared with reference to the open-access approach set forth in the Budapest Open Access Initiative:

https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read/

  1. Scope of Open Access

Open access means that the full texts of articles published in the Journal are available online without any financial barriers.

Articles published in the Journal of Business Research–Turk:

  • Are made openly accessible immediately upon publication.
    • Are not subject to any embargo period.
    • Do not require a subscription or access fee.
    • Do not require user registration or institutional membership.
    • Remain accessible through a permanent article webpage and DOI link.
    • May be shared and reused in accordance with the terms of the applicable Creative Commons license.

Open access does not mean that copyright in a work has been waived or that the content may be used without any conditions. The use and reuse of articles are subject to the terms of the Creative Commons license described below.

  1. Applicable Open Access License

Articles published in the Journal of Business Research–Turk are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) License.

The terms of the license are available at:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

This license permits users to share, reproduce, distribute, and adapt published articles, provided that they comply with the following conditions:

Attribution

Users must clearly and appropriately indicate:

  • The names of the authors,
    • The title of the article,
    • The Journal of Business Research–Turk,
    • The year of publication, volume, issue, and page range or article number,
    • The article’s DOI link, and
    • The applicable Creative Commons license.

NonCommercial Use

Articles may be used only for non-commercial purposes. Uses primarily intended to secure commercial advantage or monetary compensation require additional permission from the authors, who are the copyright holders.

Because copyright remains with the authors, the Journal cannot independently grant permission for commercial use on their behalf.

Indication of Changes

If an article or any part of it is translated, adapted, abridged, combined with other material, or otherwise modified, the changes made must be clearly indicated.

Adapted content must not be used in a manner that suggests that the authors or the Journal of Business Research–Turk have endorsed the modifications.

No Additional Restrictions

Users may not impose additional legal terms or technological measures that restrict uses permitted under the CC BY-NC 4.0 License.

  1. Readers’ Rights of Access and Use

Provided that the terms of the CC BY-NC 4.0 License are observed and the use is non-commercial, readers may:

  • Read the full texts of articles.
    • Download articles to their computers or other devices.
    • Print articles.
    • Link to articles.
    • Share articles electronically.
    • Use articles in scholarly research and educational activities.
    • Include articles in course materials and academic presentations.
    • Deposit articles in institutional or subject-based repositories.
    • Translate, summarize, and adapt articles.
    • Search and index articles.
    • Use article metadata in academic search and discovery systems.
    • Process the content using software and text and data-mining tools for non-commercial purposes.

For all such uses, appropriate credit must be given to the authors and the original source of publication, a link to the license must be provided, and any changes made to the content must be clearly indicated.

  1. Copyright Ownership

Copyright in articles published in the Journal of Business Research–Turk remains with the authors. Authors do not transfer the copyright in their articles to the Journal or the publisher.

Authors grant the Journal a non-exclusive license to publish the article for the first time; make the published version openly accessible; reproduce, distribute, and convert it into different technical formats; archive it; assign DOI and other persistent identifiers; and share its metadata with academic indexes, databases, libraries, search engines, and digital preservation systems.

Copyright ownership in the articles is treated separately from rights relating to the Journal’s website and technical design. Copyright in the articles belongs to the authors, whereas rights relating to the Journal’s website and publishing infrastructure belong to their respective rights holders.

Further details concerning copyright and publishing rights are governed by the Journal’s Copyright and Licensing Policy and its Non-Exclusive Publishing and Open Access License Agreement.

  1. No Embargo Period

No waiting or embargo period applies to open access to articles published in the Journal.

The final published version of an article is made accessible to everyone immediately upon online publication. Readers are not required to pay subscription or access fees, hold institutional membership, or complete user registration.

The terms governing the use and reuse of an article are subject to the Creative Commons license specified on the article on its publication date.

  1. Authors’ Self-Archiving Rights

Authors may deposit and share the following versions of their articles on personal academic websites, in institutional repositories, subject-based repositories, and scholarly sharing platforms without any embargo period:

  • The author’s version before peer review — preprint
    • The author’s accepted manuscript following peer review
    • The final version published by the Journal — Version of Record

When the final published version is shared, the following information must be clearly displayed:

  • The article’s full bibliographic citation,
    • The name of the Journal of Business Research–Turk,
    • The original publication details,
    • The article’s DOI link, and
    • The applicable CC BY-NC 4.0 License.

No fees are charged to authors or readers for self-archiving.

  1. Third-Party Materials

Not all materials included in an article are automatically covered by the article’s CC BY-NC 4.0 License.

The following third-party materials may be subject to different copyright or licensing terms:

  • Photographs
    • Maps
    • Figures
    • Tables
    • Scales
    • Questionnaires
    • Datasets
    • Software and code
    • Extended quotations
    • Content reproduced or adapted from other publications

Third-party materials that are not covered by the CC BY-NC 4.0 License must be identified in the article through a separate copyright or licensing notice. Additional permission from the relevant copyright holder may be required to reuse such materials.

Authors are responsible for obtaining the necessary permissions for third-party materials, submitting documentation of these permissions to the Journal, and providing accurate attribution.

  1. Information Displayed in Articles

The following information is clearly displayed in the full text of every published research article:

  • Copyright holder
    • Name of the Creative Commons license
    • Link to the license
    • Article DOI
    • Publication date
    • Journal title
    • Author and corresponding author information

Copyright and licensing information is displayed in articles as follows:

© The Author(s). This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) License.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

  1. Continuity of Open Access

The Journal aims to maintain full-text access in its electronic archive to all issues and articles published since 2009.

Article files and bibliographic metadata are maintained in the OJS publishing system. A DOI is assigned to each published article, and DOI records are maintained so that they direct users to the current online location of the article.

Electronic backups, long-term digital preservation, and the procedures to be followed if the Journal ceases publication are explained in the Archiving and Digital Preservation Policy.

  1. Policy Updates

This policy is reviewed when changes occur in open-access standards, Creative Commons licenses, the Journal’s publishing practices, or applicable legal regulations.

Changes to this policy do not retroactively alter the licenses applied to previously published articles. The Creative Commons license applied to a published article remains valid in accordance with the terms of that license.

Date of last policy update: August 2026
Applicable license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)