Publishing Policies

Open Access Policy

Bilge Academic Publishing is committed to advancing the global exchange of scholarly knowledge through a sustainable, transparent, and fully open access publishing model. We believe that unrestricted access to high quality research enhances scientific collaboration, increases research visibility, accelerates innovation, and promotes evidence based practice across disciplines.

All journals published by Bilge Academic Publishing provide immediate, permanent, and free online access to their entire content. Readers may access, read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and link to published articles without financial, legal, or technical barriers, subject only to the conditions of the applicable Creative Commons license.

Principles

Our open access publishing model is founded on internationally recognized best practices and is guided by the following principles:

  • Immediate and unrestricted access to all published articles.
  • No subscription fees or embargo periods.
  • Equal access to scholarly knowledge regardless of geographical location or institutional affiliation.
  • Transparent editorial and peer review processes.
  • Permanent online availability through the journal websites.
  • Long term digital preservation using trusted archiving services.
  • Persistent article identification through Crossref Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs).
  • Compliance with internationally accepted standards for publication ethics, research integrity, and responsible scholarly publishing.

Author rights

Authors retain the copyright of their published work unless otherwise specified by the individual journal. By submitting and publishing their manuscripts, authors grant Bilge Academic Publishing a non exclusive license to publish, archive, preserve, and disseminate the work in its published form.

Authors remain free to share, reuse, and archive their publications in accordance with the terms of the journal’s Creative Commons license. Bilge Academic Publishing supports responsible self archiving and encourages the widest possible dissemination of scholarly research.

Commitment to Open Science

Bilge Academic Publishing actively supports the principles of Open Science by promoting openness, transparency, reproducibility, and responsible research communication. We continuously improve our publishing practices in accordance with the recommendations and standards of internationally recognized organizations, including COPE, Crossref, ORCID, CRediT, and other initiatives that strengthen research integrity and scholarly communication.

Through its open access publishing model, Bilge Academic Publishing seeks to remove barriers to knowledge, increase the global visibility of research, and contribute to an inclusive, ethical, and sustainable scholarly publishing ecosystem.

Licensing

Each journal published by Bilge Academic Publishing clearly identifies the applicable Creative Commons license on its website and within every published article. The selected license defines how readers and third parties may reuse, share, distribute, or adapt published content while ensuring proper attribution to the original authors.

Preservation and Accessibility

Bilge Academic Publishing is committed to preserving the scholarly record for future generations. All published articles receive permanent Crossref DOIs and are preserved through reliable digital preservation services, including the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN), ensuring long term accessibility, discoverability, and citation stability.

In addition, article metadata are deposited with relevant scholarly infrastructure services to improve indexing, discoverability, and interoperability across international research databases.

Last updated

17.07.2026