The journal Socialization and Human Development adheres to an open access policy that ensures free and unrestricted access to scholarly publications, with the aim of promoting the dissemination of knowledge and advancing scholarly communication.

All articles published in the journal are freely available in open access without any financial, legal, or technical restrictions for readers.

The journal supports the principles of open science and provides immediate open access to all published materials.

Licensing

All materials published in the journal Socialization and Human Development are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

This license permits users to:

• freely read, download, and share materials;
• copy and reproduce texts in any format;
• adapt, transform, and incorporate materials into other works;
• use materials for any purpose, including commercial use.

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• appropriately acknowledge authorship;
• provide a link to the license;
• indicate whether any modifications were made to the material.

Copyright

Authors retain copyright in their scholarly works.

Submission of an article to the journal signifies that the authors grant the journal the right to publish the work and to distribute it in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Self-Archiving

Authors are entitled to deposit the published version of their articles in:

• institutional repositories;
• academic social networks;
• personal websites;
• other open archives,

provided that the bibliographic description of the publication and a link to the official version of the article on the journal’s website are clearly indicated.