Copyright & Licensing Policy

Zakariya Journal of Social Sciences (ZJSS) respects the intellectual property rights of authors and follows transparent copyright practices. Authors retain full copyright ownership of their published articles without restriction.

By publishing with ZJSS, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive right to publish, distribute, archive, and make their articles publicly available in electronic and other formats while maintaining full ownership of their intellectual work.

Author Rights

Authors retain the right to:

• Maintain full ownership and copyright of their scholarly work.
• Share and distribute their published articles through personal websites, institutional repositories, and academic networks.
• Use their published research for educational and non-commercial purposes.
• Deposit and archive their published articles according to repository policies.
• Reuse their work without transferring exclusive copyright ownership to the journal.

Creative Commons License

All articles published in Zakariya Journal of Social Sciences (ZJSS) are licensed under the:

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0)

License Link:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Under the CC BY-NC 4.0 License, users are permitted to:

• Share — Copy and redistribute the published material in any medium or format.
• Adapt — Remix, transform, and build upon the material for non-commercial purposes.

Users must:

• Provide appropriate credit to the original authors.
• Cite the journal source.
• Include the license information.
• Indicate if any changes were made to the original work.

Commercial use of published content is not permitted without prior permission from the copyright holder.

Publisher Rights

ZJSS retains the right to publish, distribute, and preserve articles on its official platform. The journal does not transfer copyright ownership from authors and respects authors’ intellectual property rights.

Licensing Information Display

Copyright and licensing information are clearly displayed on the journal website and published articles to ensure transparency for authors, readers, and indexing services.

Compliance with Open Access Standards

Zakariya Journal of Social Sciences (ZJSS) follows transparent open access publishing practices and ensures that published research remains freely accessible under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).