Open Access Policy
Open Access Policy
Afrocentric Legal Review supports the broad dissemination of scholarly knowledge and encourages responsible access to academic research.
The journal operates an open access publishing model designed to improve the visibility, accessibility, and impact of legal and interdisciplinary scholarship.
Access and Use
Readers may freely access published articles on the journal website subject to the licensing and copyright terms stated on individual articles.
Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, cite, and link to published articles for lawful academic and non-commercial purposes provided proper attribution is given to the author(s) and the journal.
Licensing
The journal may publish articles under recognized open access licenses such as:
- Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY)
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (CC BY-NC)
The exact license applicable to each article shall be stated on the article publication page.
Author Rights
Authors retain copyright to their work while granting the publisher the right to publish and archive the material.
Repository and Archiving Policy
Authors are permitted to deposit published or accepted versions of their articles in:
- Institutional repositories
- Academic social networks
- Personal websites
- Non-commercial research repositories
Provided that full citation to the original publication in Afrocentric Legal Review is included.