Open Access Policy

Socratika: Journal of Progressive Education and Social Inquiry is a fully open-access scholarly journal. All articles published in Socratika are made freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication, without subscription fees, access charges, registration requirements, or embargo periods.

Socratika supports the broad dissemination of scholarly knowledge and encourages the responsible use, sharing, distribution, and reuse of published works in accordance with the journal’s licensing policy.

Creative Commons License

Articles published in Socratika are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) .

Under this license, users are permitted to:

• copy and redistribute published material in any medium or format;
• share and distribute published articles;
• remix, transform, translate, and build upon the material; and
• use the material for any lawful purpose, including educational, research, professional, and commercial purposes.

Further information about copyright ownership and licensing is provided in Socratika’s Copyright and Licensing Policy .

Reader Rights

All published content in Socratika may be accessed without payment, subscription, registration, or other access restrictions.

Subject to the terms of the applicable license, readers may:

• read and download the full text of published articles;
• print or save articles for personal, educational, research, or institutional purposes;
• share articles through websites, learning platforms, repositories, and scholarly networks;
• use published materials for teaching, training, research, and community activities;
• quote, translate, adapt, or build upon published content with appropriate attribution;
• conduct text and data mining where technically and legally permitted; and
• link directly to article pages, abstracts, and full-text files.

Author Rights

Authors retain the copyright of articles published in Socratika.

Authors may share, distribute, archive, and reuse their published works in accordance with the CC BY 4.0 license and the journal’s Copyright and Licensing Policy.

Authors remain fully responsible for the originality, accuracy, ethical integrity, and legal compliance of their published work. Authors must ensure that:

• all sources are cited accurately and appropriately;
• appropriate permission has been obtained for copyrighted third-party material where required;
• figures, photographs, tables, instruments, datasets, and other materials may legally be included in the publication;
• confidential, private, or personally identifiable information is appropriately protected;
• sources of funding and potential conflicts of interest are disclosed; and
• the publication complies with applicable ethical, copyright, and licensing requirements.

Self-Archiving Policy

Socratika permits authors to deposit and share versions of their manuscripts without an embargo period.

Authors may archive:

• the submitted manuscript or preprint;
• the accepted manuscript following peer review; and
• the final published version of record.

These versions may be deposited in institutional repositories, subject repositories, personal academic websites, scholarly networks, or other lawful platforms.

When sharing the final published version, authors are encouraged to provide the complete bibliographic citation and a link to the official article page or DOI.

Third-Party Materials

Unless otherwise indicated, the CC BY 4.0 license applies to the content of articles published in Socratika.

Third-party materials, including images, photographs, figures, tables, datasets, instruments, or other copyrighted content, may be subject to different copyright or licensing conditions.

Where third-party material is not covered by the article’s Creative Commons license, this must be clearly indicated. Users are responsible for obtaining any additional permission required for reuse of such material.

Article Processing Charge and Reader Access

Socratika may charge an Article Processing Charge (APC) for manuscripts that have been officially accepted for publication.

The APC supports editorial management, publication, online hosting, and the continued availability of published content. It is not a subscription fee or a charge for access to published articles.

Detailed information concerning publication fees is available on the Article Processing Charge (APC) page.

Long-Term Access

Socratika is committed to maintaining the availability and integrity of its published scholarly content.

The journal maintains digital copies, article metadata, and publication records through its journal management and hosting infrastructure. Authors are also permitted to preserve the published version of their articles in institutional or subject repositories without an embargo period.

The journal may adopt additional digital preservation services as part of its continuing efforts to support long-term scholarly access.

Recommended Citation and Attribution

When reusing material published in Socratika, users must comply with the attribution requirements of the CC BY 4.0 license.

To facilitate proper scholarly attribution and citation, Socratika recommends including, where applicable:

• the name of the author or authors;
• the title of the article;
• the name of the journal;
• volume, issue, year, and page or article number;
• DOI or official article URL;
• a reference and link to the CC BY 4.0 license; and
• an indication of whether the original material has been modified.