A. OPEN ACCESS PRINCIPLE

Dialogue supports the principle that scholarly knowledge should be made widely and freely available to the academic community and the public. Providing unrestricted access to research can increase the visibility, dissemination, use, and potential impact of scholarly work. Accordingly, all articles published in Dialogue are made openly available online immediately upon publication.

B. IMMEDIATE OPEN ACCESS

C. FREE ACCESS FOR READERS

Readers are not required to pay subscription or access fees to read published articles. Dialogue seeks to ensure that research is accessible to academics, educators, students, practitioners, policymakers, communities, and the general public.

D. DIAMOND OPEN ACCESS MODEL

E. ACCESS AND USE OF PUBLISHED ARTICLES

Published articles may be accessed online for scholarly, educational, research, and other lawful purposes, subject to the terms of the journal's Copyright and License Policy. Readers may generally read, download, copy, distribute, and share published articles provided that the original source and authors are properly acknowledged and the applicable license conditions are respected.

F. COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

G. AUTHOR SELF-ARCHIVING

Authors are encouraged to increase the visibility and accessibility of their work through responsible self-archiving. Subject to the applicable copyright and license conditions, authors may deposit or share published articles through:

• institutional repositories;
• personal academic websites;
• research repositories;
• academic profiles and scholarly networks;
• teaching and educational platforms;
• other lawful scholarly dissemination channels.

The official journal citation, article title, author information, and DOI or journal URL should be included whenever the published article is shared.

H. OPEN ACCESS AND ARTICLE PROCESSING CHARGES

Open Access and Article Processing Charges are separate aspects of journal publishing. Dialogue currently provides Open Access without charging authors an Article Processing Charge. For complete information regarding publication fees, authors should consult the journal's Article Processing Charges (APC) Policy.

I. ACCESSIBILITY OF SCHOLARLY KNOWLEDGE

The Open Access policy of Dialogue is intended to promote wider participation in scholarly communication. By eliminating reader access fees, the journal seeks to make educational and social research more accessible to institutions and communities with differing levels of financial and technological resources. This approach supports the exchange of knowledge across geographical, institutional, social, and disciplinary boundaries.

J. EDUCATIONAL AND SCHOLARLY USE

K. DIGITAL ACCESS AND DISCOVERABILITY

Published articles are made available through the journal's online platform together with relevant bibliographic metadata. The journal seeks to support discoverability through search engines, scholarly databases, metadata harvesting services, and other academic information systems where available. Open Access enhances the ability of published research to be discovered, read, cited, and reused.

L. LONG-TERM ACCESS

Dialogue is committed to maintaining continued access to its published scholarly record. Digital preservation, backup, metadata management, and other preservation measures are addressed in the journal's Archiving Policy. The journal seeks to ensure that published articles remain accessible even when changes occur in publishing platforms or technical infrastructure.

M. OPEN ACCESS AT A GLANCE

Immediate No embargo period

Free Access No reader fees

APC IDR 0 No author charges

CC BY 4.0 Reuse with attribution