Copyright and Licensing

The authors will retain the copyrights of their submitted manuscripts for all purposes. This statement is clearly mentioned in each published article with the name of all authors. The Social Sciences Spectrum provides open access to all of its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. As such, copyright for articles published in this journal is retained by the authors, under the terms of the Creative Commons-Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. Such access is associated with increased readership and increased citation of an author's work. For more information on this approach, see the Public Knowledge Project, the Directory of Open Access Journals, or the Budapest Open Access Initiative.

All the contents of the Social Sciences Spectrum are available and accessible to anyone without requiring any charges, subscriptions, or registrations. There are also no charges required for new submissions made by the authors however, the journal is charging a minimal fee i.e. RS. 15000 from the authors after the acceptance of the article.  The details are available in the link 'Publication Fee' under Authors Guidelines