OPEN ACCESS POLICY

MADIA: Journal of Public Relations and Contemporary Media adopts a full Open Access policy to support the unrestricted dissemination of scholarly knowledge. The journal believes that free and immediate access to research findings promotes the global exchange of knowledge, increases research visibility, enhances academic impact, and contributes to the advancement of communication studies, public relations, media studies, and contemporary communication research. Open access publishing allows scholarly articles to be freely available online to anyone, anywhere, without subscription fees or access barriers.

1. Principles of Open Access

MADIA provides immediate and unrestricted access to all published content. Readers are free to access, read, download, copy, print, search, and link to the full text of articles without requiring prior permission from the authors or the publisher, provided that such use complies with the applicable licensing terms.

The journal believes that making research openly available contributes to increased scholarly collaboration, scientific innovation, and broader utilization of research outcomes by academic communities, practitioners, policymakers, and society at large.

2. Free Access for Readers

All articles published by MADIA are freely and permanently accessible through the journal website. Readers are not required to pay any fees to:

Access published articles.
Read articles online.
Download articles in available formats.
Print articles for educational, academic, and research purposes.
Use articles as references for teaching, learning, and research activities.

MADIA does not operate under a subscription model and does not impose any paywalls on published content.

3. User Rights

Users are permitted to:

Download and store articles.
Share articles with others.
Use articles for educational, research, and scholarly purposes.
Cite and reference articles in accordance with accepted academic standards.
Adapt, reproduce, and build upon published works in accordance with the applicable license.

All uses of published content must provide appropriate attribution to the original author(s) and acknowledge MADIA as the source of first publication.

4. Author Rights

Authors retain copyright ownership of articles published in MADIA. Authors have the right to:

Deposit published articles in institutional repositories.
Archive articles in subject-specific repositories.
Share articles through personal websites and academic networking platforms.
Reuse published content in future scholarly works, provided that the original publication in MADIA is properly acknowledged.

MADIA actively supports self-archiving practices to maximize the dissemination and impact of scholarly research.

5. Publication License

Articles published in MADIA are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), unless otherwise specified by the journal. This license permits use, distribution, reproduction, adaptation, and sharing of the work in any medium or format, including commercial use, provided that appropriate credit is given to the author(s) and the original source of publication.

6. Benefits of Open Access

Through its Open Access policy, MADIA aims to:

Increase the visibility and readership of published articles.
Enhance citation opportunities and research impact.
Promote academic collaboration across institutions and countries.
Accelerate the dissemination of research findings to society.
Support the sustainable development of communication and media scholarship.

Numerous studies have demonstrated that open-access publications achieve greater accessibility, readership, and scholarly impact than publications distributed through restricted-access models.

7. MADIA’s Commitment to Open Science

MADIA supports the principles of Open Science by providing unrestricted access to high-quality scholarly research. The journal is committed to expanding knowledge dissemination, strengthening scholarly communication, and enhancing the contribution of research in public relations, media studies, digital communication, and contemporary communication to both academic communities and society as a whole.