Open Access Policy

Education, Innovation and Social Futures (EISF) is an open-access journal committed to making scholarly research freely and immediately accessible to readers worldwide.

Immediate Open Access

All articles published in EISF are made freely available online immediately upon publication. Readers may access published content without subscription or registration fees.

The journal does not impose an embargo period on published articles.

Author Copyright

Authors retain copyright in their published work. Publication in EISF does not require authors to transfer copyright ownership to the journal or publisher.

Authors grant the journal the right of first publication and permission to publish and disseminate the final article as part of the scholarly record.

Open-Access Licensing

Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), unless otherwise indicated.

Under this licence, readers may share and adapt published material for any lawful purpose, provided appropriate credit is given to the original author(s), the source of publication is acknowledged, a link to the licence is provided, and any changes made are indicated.

Repository and Self-Archiving

Authors may deposit and share their published articles through institutional repositories, subject repositories, personal academic websites, and other appropriate scholarly platforms in accordance with the applicable open-access licence.

Access and Reuse

EISF supports the broad dissemination and responsible reuse of scholarly knowledge. Open access enables researchers, educators, students, practitioners, policymakers, and the wider community to read and use published research without subscription barriers.

Long-Term Scholarly Access

The journal is committed to maintaining reliable online access to its published scholarly content and to adopting appropriate preservation and archiving arrangements as the journal develops.

Commitment to Open Scholarship

Through its open-access model, EISF seeks to promote equitable access to knowledge, international scholarly exchange, research visibility, and the responsible dissemination of educational research across geographical and institutional boundaries.