Open Access Policy

This journal provides direct open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports greater global knowledge exchange.

All articles published by Open Access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. We are constantly working with our community of writers to select the best selection of licensing options: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Authors and readers can copy and redistribute material in any media or format, as well as remix, modify and build the material for any purpose, even commercially, but they must provide appropriate credit (cite the article or content), provide a link to the license, and indicate if anything changes. If you mix, modify, or build upon the materials, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the originals.

The author who sends the manuscript is done with the understanding that if it is accepted for publication, the author still owns the copyright and provides the copyright of the Journal of Community Development (JCD)