Policies

Published articles are openly available under CC BY 4.0, subject to the journal’s full access policy.

The journal’s copyright and licensing policy explains author, publication, preservation, and reuse rights.

Scholardemia journals do not charge article processing charges (APCs).

Editorial review, with editorial screening, reviewer responsibilities, and final editorial accountability described in the full policy.

Responsibilities and procedures for authors, reviewers, editors, the publisher, investigations, and post-publication notices.

Policy for plagiarism, duplicate publication, text recycling, translated plagiarism, citation manipulation, and legitimate overlap.

AI tools cannot be authors; authors remain responsible for content, disclosure, accuracy, citations, data, and images.

Data availability, sensitive-data limits, privacy, consent, evidence retention, and citation expectations.

Preservation routes for the canonical journal website, publication records, article files, issue pages, metadata, backups, and assigned DOI records.

Authors may deposit the published version of record when citation, version, and verified licence terms remain clear.

Public information about policy coverage, editorial independence, verified facts, and publisher/platform roles.

Public board record with role, affiliation, country, and profile links where available, plus conflict-handling rules.

Evidence-based complaints and appeals may be sent to iwickens@gmail.com for editorial review.