Open Access Policy

Social Lens is a fully open-access journal and supports the global dissemination of scholarly knowledge and equitable access to research. All articles are freely available immediately upon publication, accessible without subscription, downloadable without restrictions and permanently free for everyone to read. Content is distributed under the CC BY 4.0 license.

By "open access" to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.

The copyright of the published article is held by the author(s) and the article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This license allows others to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon your work, as long as they credit you for the original creation.