Copyright and Licensing

Socratika: Journal of Progressive Education and Social Inquiry is an open-access journal committed to the broad dissemination and reuse of scholarly knowledge while respecting authors’ intellectual property rights.

Copyright

Authors retain the copyright of articles published in Socratika.

By submitting and publishing an article in Socratika, authors grant the journal the right of first publication and authorize South Sulawesi Education Development (SSED) to publish, reproduce, distribute, display, and preserve the article as part of the journal’s scholarly record.

Authors may subsequently distribute, archive, reproduce, or reuse their published articles, provided that the original publication in Socratika is properly acknowledged.

Licensing

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

Under this license, readers and other users are permitted to:

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

  • share and distribute the article;

  • adapt, remix, transform, and build upon the material; and

  • use the material for any lawful purpose, including commercial purposes.

These uses are permitted provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s), a reference to the original publication in Socratika is provided, a link to the applicable Creative Commons license is included, and any changes made to the original material are clearly indicated.

The license does not imply that the authors or Socratika endorse any adaptation, modification, or reuse of the published work.

Author Rights

Authors retain the right to:

  1. use their published article in teaching and academic activities;

  2. include the article in a thesis, dissertation, book, or other scholarly work;

  3. deposit the published version in institutional or subject repositories;

  4. share the article through personal websites or scholarly networks;

  5. distribute copies for academic and research purposes; and

  6. reuse parts of the article in future works with appropriate acknowledgement of the original publication.

No additional permission from Socratika is required for uses permitted under the CC BY 4.0 license.

Third-Party Materials

Authors are responsible for ensuring that photographs, figures, tables, datasets, illustrations, instruments, or other third-party materials included in their articles may legally be published under the stated license.

Where third-party material is not covered by the article’s Creative Commons license, this must be clearly indicated, and authors are responsible for obtaining any necessary permission from the copyright holder.

Open Access and Reuse

Socratika provides immediate open access to its published content. Readers are not required to register, subscribe, or pay to access published articles.

The journal encourages lawful sharing, archiving, and reuse of published scholarly works in accordance with the CC BY 4.0 license.