OPEN ACCESS POLICY

Open Access Statement

TRANSFORMA: Journal of Community Innovation and Transformation is a fully Open Access journal. All published articles are freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication without subscription fees, registration requirements, or access restrictions.

The journal is committed to promoting the global dissemination of scientific knowledge by ensuring that research findings and community service innovations are available to researchers, practitioners, policymakers, educators, students, and the general public without financial barriers.

Authors and readers are not charged any fees to access published articles.

Licensing

All articles published in TRANSFORMA are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.

Under this license, users are free to:

  • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.

  • Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercial use.

Under the following conditions:

  • Attribution (BY): Appropriate credit must be given to the original author(s) and the journal, a link to the license must be provided, and any changes made must be clearly indicated.

  • ShareAlike (SA): If the material is modified or adapted, the resulting work must be distributed under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

Copyright

Copyright of each published article remains with the author(s).

By publishing in TRANSFORMA, authors grant the journal the right to publish, distribute, archive, and preserve the work as part of the scholarly record while allowing unrestricted access under the terms of the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

Benefits of Open Access

The Open Access publishing model adopted by TRANSFORMA provides several advantages:

  • Immediate and unrestricted access to published articles.

  • Increased visibility and dissemination of research outcomes.

  • Greater opportunities for citation and academic impact.

  • Enhanced collaboration among researchers, practitioners, and communities.

  • Wider public access to evidence-based community service innovations.

  • Support for the global exchange of scientific knowledge.

Long-Term Accessibility

To ensure the long-term preservation and accessibility of published content, TRANSFORMA maintains permanent online availability of all articles through its journal platform and supports indexing, archiving, and metadata dissemination in accordance with international scholarly publishing standards.

For more information about the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0), please visit the official Creative Commons website.