Open Access Policy
Frontiers in Literary Studies understands the importance of making scholarly literature available to a broad community in the fields of literary studies, humanities research, cultural studies, and other relevant interdisciplinary fields.
This journal seeks to foster dissemination of scholarly research and engagement within scholarly communities in general.
Depending on the journal’s applicable publishing model, the published articles can be freely accessed under the open-access model.
Key Objectives of Open Access:
| Goal/Intention | How OA Contributes to Achievement |
|---|---|
| Greater Availability | Facilitates access to scholarly work by more people without requiring traditional subscriptions. |
| Knowledge Sharing | Helps facilitate the exchange and discussion of scholarly ideas by scholars and others. |
| Global Cooperation | Helps bring about interaction and cooperation between scholars from different parts of the world. |
| Visibility of Research | Helps make research work available to more scholars, increasing chances of discovery and engagement. |
| Interdisciplinarity | Helps establish relationships between the study of literature and other areas like history, philosophy, cultural studies, media studies, and digital humanities. |
| Public Scholarship | Provides opportunities for scholarly work to be read by educators, students, cultural organizations, and others. |
Open access may contribute to:
- Expanding access to literary and humanities scholarship.
- Encouraging knowledge sharing among researchers and academics.
- Supporting international academic collaboration.
- Improving the discovery of published research.
- Fostering interdisciplinary scholarship.
- Broadening debate about literature, culture, history, media, and society.
It is the position of the journal that open scholarly communication can be a tool for reaching an audience outside of the traditional academic community. Open research could have value for scholars, educators, students, independent scholars, cultural institutions, and other interested readers.
Nevertheless, open access does not detract from the significance of copyright, citation, academic integrity, or scholarly communication. The reader is free to access, distribute, cite, and use the published research according to copyright policy of the journal.
The authors are recommended to consult their licensing agreement for their published papers.
