Open Access Policy

The Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Finance (JOCAF) is a fully open access journal, committed to the principle that scholarly research should be freely accessible to all users without financial, legal, or technical barriers.

Open Access Commitment

All articles published in JOCAF are made immediately and permanently available online upon publication. Readers are allowed to:

  • Read, download, copy, distribute, and print articles freely
  • Share published content for non-commercial academic and research purposes
  • Use articles for teaching, research, and institutional purposes

No subscription or payment is required to access published content.

Licensing Terms

All articles in JOCAF are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) License.

Under this license:

  • Attribution is required: Users must properly cite the original work and authors
  • Non-commercial use only: Content may not be used for commercial purposes without permission from the publisher
  • Adaptation allowed: Users may remix, transform, and build upon the work for academic and educational purposes

Author Rights

Authors publishing in JOCAF retain full copyright of their work. However, by publishing in the journal, authors grant JOCAF:

  • The right of first publication
  • The right to distribute and archive the published version
  • The right to identify the journal as the original publisher

Authors are also permitted to:

  • Deposit preprints or accepted manuscripts in institutional repositories
  • Share their work on academic platforms, provided proper citation is given
  • Use their published work in future books or academic compilations

User Rights

Users of JOCAF content are permitted to:

  • Access all articles freely at no cost
  • Reuse content for educational and scholarly purposes
  • Share articles with colleagues and students
  • Include figures or tables in academic presentations with proper citation

All reuse must comply with the CC BY-NC 4.0 license conditions.

Archiving and Accessibility

JOCAF ensures long-term accessibility of its published content through:

  • Online journal hosting platform
  • Digital archiving systems
  • Indexing in academic databases such as Google Scholar and other indexing services

This guarantees that published research remains permanently available to the global academic community.

No Embargo Policy

JOCAF does not impose any embargo period. All accepted and published articles are:

  • Released immediately upon publication
  • Freely accessible without delay

Ethical Use of Content

Users must not:

  • Use JOCAF content for commercial resale or redistribution
  • Misrepresent or alter authors’ findings
  • Use published material in ways that violate academic integrity

Proper citation and acknowledgment of original authors and the journal are mandatory in all cases.