The Journal of Early Childhood Education (JAUD) is fully committed to the philosophy of open access. This means that all scholarly articles published in our journal are freely and immediately available for anyone to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to their full texts. We believe that unrestricted access to research findings accelerates discovery, fosters scientific collaboration, and ensures that knowledge can be widely utilized for the advancement of early childhood education and development. Although we embrace open access, the copyright for each published article remains with the respective authors. This provides full recognition to the authors as the intellectual creators of their work.
To facilitate broad open access and reuse, all articles published in JAUD are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This is a highly permissive open access license, allowing others to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material) for any purpose, including commercial uses. The primary condition of this license is Attribution: users must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. This must be done in a reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests JAUD or the authors endorse your use.
JAUD's adoption of the CC BY 4.0 license underscores our dedication to open science and open scholarship. It ensures that valuable research in the field of early childhood can be accessed and utilized by the global community without unnecessary financial or technical barriers, while still respecting the rights and recognition of the original authors. Consequently, JAUD does not charge subscription fees or pay-per-view fees to readers. Authors submitting manuscripts to JAUD automatically agree to these copyright and license terms, contributing to a more open and collaborative scholarly publishing ecosystem.
