Open Access Policy

TAMGA-Turkish Journal of Semiotic Studies uses Open Journal Systems 3.1 documenting version developed, supported and distributed by the Public Knowledge Project under the name of General Public License.

TAMGA-Turkish Journal of Semiotic Studies supports the Budapest Open Access Initiative and presents all the articles it publishes free of charge in an environment where everyone can read and download it. In this declaration, Open-Access is defined as making scientific literature being accessible to be read, saved, copied, printed, scanned, linked to the full text, indexed, transferred as data to software and used for any legal purpose, without financial, legal and technical barriers through the Internet.

All articles in TAMGA-Turkish Journal of Semiotic Studies are licensed with Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). This license grants the right to reproduce, share and disseminate all published articles, data sets, graphics and attachments on data mining applications, search engines, websites, blogs and all other platforms, provided that the source is cited. Open-Access is an approach that facilitates interdisciplinary communication and encourages different disciplines to work with each other. In this direction, the journal provides added value to the field of science it serves by providing more access to its articles and a more transparent evaluation process.

TAMGA-Turkish Journal of Semiotic Studies recommends that libraries include the content of the journal in the library catalogue records, within the scope of its Open-Access policy, which it accepts and supports. In this sense, the journal undertakes that it will not charge subscriptions and fees for accessing electronic articles published from the library or the reader in any way.