Open Access Policy

Open Access Policy

Athena: Journal of Social, Culture and Society is a fully open-access scholarly journal. All scholarly articles published by Athena are made freely and immediately available online to readers worldwide without subscription charges, access fees, registration requirements, or embargo periods.

Athena supports the principle that scholarly research should be accessible as widely as possible. Readers may access the full text of published articles immediately after publication and may use, share, and adapt published content in accordance with the applicable open license.

The journal's open-access policy is consistent with the principles articulated by the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) and with internationally recognized principles of open scholarly communication.

1. IMMEDIATE AND FREE ACCESS

Athena provides immediate open access to all published scholarly articles. No embargo period is applied before articles become publicly accessible.

  • No subscription is required to access published articles.
  • Readers are not required to register or log in to access full-text scholarly content.
  • No access fee or paywall is imposed on published scholarly articles.
  • No embargo period is applied to the published version.
  • Full-text articles are publicly available immediately upon publication.
2. OPEN LICENSE

Unless otherwise clearly indicated for specific third-party material, articles published in Athena are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) .

Under this license, users are permitted to:

Share
Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
Adapt
Remix, transform, translate, and build upon the material.
Commercial Reuse
Reuse the material for commercial as well as non-commercial purposes.

These uses are permitted provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s), the original source of publication is acknowledged, a link to the CC BY 4.0 license is provided, and any changes made to the original work are clearly indicated. No additional permission from the authors, journal, or publisher is required for uses permitted under the CC BY 4.0 license.

3. COPYRIGHT AND AUTHOR RIGHTS

Copyright remains with the author(s). Authors retain copyright in their published work.

By publishing in Athena, authors grant the journal the right of first publication and authorize the journal and its publisher, CV. Media Digital Publikasi Indonesia, to publish and distribute the article under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

The journal does not require authors to transfer copyright ownership as a condition of publication. Authors remain free to reuse, distribute, deposit, translate, or otherwise make lawful use of their published work in accordance with the CC BY 4.0 license.

4. READER AND REUSE RIGHTS

Subject to the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license, users may access and reuse Athena articles without obtaining separate prior permission from the authors, journal, or publisher.

✓ Read and download
✓ Copy and redistribute
✓ Print and share
✓ Link to full-text articles
✓ Translate and adapt
✓ Reuse for teaching and research
✓ Crawl and index
✓ Text and data mining
✓ Commercial and non-commercial reuse
5. SELF-ARCHIVING AND REPOSITORY POLICY

Athena supports author self-archiving and does not impose an embargo period on the deposit of published articles.

Authors may deposit and disseminate the published version of their article in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

Authors may archive their published articles in:

  • institutional repositories;
  • subject or disciplinary repositories;
  • university repositories;
  • personal or academic websites;
  • scholarly profiles and research networks; and
  • other legitimate open scholarly repositories.

When depositing or redistributing the published version, authors should acknowledge Athena as the original publication venue and include the article DOI and a link to the official journal version whenever available.

6. DISCOVERY, INDEXING AND MACHINE ACCESS

Athena supports interoperability, scholarly discovery, and machine-readable dissemination of academic content.

Subject to applicable licensing terms, journal content and metadata may be searched, linked, crawled, harvested, indexed, analyzed, and processed by academic search engines, library discovery systems, indexing services, repositories, citation databases, text- and data-mining systems, and other scholarly information services.

7. THIRD-PARTY MATERIAL

Articles may contain photographs, figures, maps, tables, datasets, quotations, illustrations, instruments, or other third-party material that is subject to separate copyright or licensing conditions.

Unless otherwise indicated, original Athena article content is distributed under CC BY 4.0. Where third-party material is excluded from the article's CC BY 4.0 license, its copyright or licensing status should be clearly identified. Users are responsible for obtaining additional permission from the relevant copyright holder when reuse is not covered by an applicable exception, limitation, or open license.

8. BUDAPEST OPEN ACCESS INITIATIVE

Athena supports the fundamental principle of the Budapest Open Access Initiative that scholarly literature should be freely accessible through the public internet and available for broad lawful use without financial access barriers.

Readers interested in the complete declaration may consult the official Budapest Open Access Initiative declaration .

Open Access Policy Summary

Access Model Immediate Open Access
Reader Fee None
Registration Required No
Embargo Period None
Copyright Retained by Author(s)
License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Commercial Reuse Permitted with Attribution
Adaptation / Derivative Works Permitted with Attribution
Author Self-Archiving Permitted without Embargo
Open Access Commitment: Athena is committed to maintaining immediate, permanent, and unrestricted free access to its scholarly publications and to clearly communicating the rights of authors and readers through transparent copyright and licensing policies. Published articles are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), unless clearly stated otherwise for specific third-party material.