Open Access Policy
Open Music Studies is committed to the principles of open access and to the broad dissemination of scholarly knowledge. All articles published by the journal are made freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication. Readers may access, read, download, and share published articles without subscription or registration barriers.
The journal believes that open access supports wider scholarly communication, improves the visibility and accessibility of research, facilitates international and interdisciplinary exchange, and enables research findings to reach academic communities, educators, practitioners, artists, policymakers, and the wider public.
Copyright and Publishing Rights
Authors retain the copyright to their work published in Open Music Studies.
By publishing an article in the journal, the authors grant Open Music Studies the publishing rights necessary to edit, produce, publish, reproduce, distribute, archive, preserve, index, and make the article publicly available as the journal's official version of record.
The granting of publishing rights to the journal does not transfer ownership of copyright. Copyright remains with the author(s).
Open Access License
Articles published in Open Music Studies are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) license.
Under this license, users may copy, share, redistribute, and adapt the published work provided that:
- appropriate credit is given to the author(s) and the original publication in Open Music Studies;
- the original source and publication are properly acknowledged;
- the material is not used for commercial purposes; and
- adaptations or derivative works are distributed under the same or a compatible ShareAlike license.
Use of the material must not imply endorsement by the authors or the journal.
Author Reuse and Sharing
Because authors retain copyright, they may use and share their published work for legitimate scholarly, educational, and non-commercial purposes in accordance with the applicable CC BY-NC-SA license.
Authors may cite, discuss, present, distribute, or incorporate their published work into teaching materials, academic presentations, institutional repositories, scholarly profiles, subsequent research, or other academic activities, provided that the original publication in Open Music Studies is appropriately acknowledged.
Where available, authors are encouraged to link to or cite the article's DOI and the journal's official published version.
Access to the Version of Record
The version published on the Open Music Studies website constitutes the journal's official version of record.
The journal is responsible for maintaining the integrity, accessibility, and publication metadata of this version. Any formal correction, retraction, expression of concern, or other post-publication notice will be linked to the published record in accordance with the journal's publication-ethics policies.
Third-Party Materials
The CC BY-NC-SA license applied to an article does not automatically extend to third-party materials that are subject to separate copyright, licensing, cultural, contractual, or permission conditions.
This may include photographs, artworks, musical scores, notation, lyrics, sound recordings, video recordings, screenshots, archival documents, performance documentation, or other materials owned by third parties.
Authors are responsible for obtaining any permissions required for publication and for providing appropriate attribution, source information, copyright notices, or licensing statements.
Where third-party material is excluded from the article's Creative Commons license, its separate copyright or reuse conditions should be clearly indicated.
Commitment to Open Scholarship
Through this open-access policy, Open Music Studies seeks to support the responsible circulation of knowledge while protecting authors' copyright, respecting intellectual-property rights, and maintaining the integrity of the scholarly record.
Published research should be as accessible and reusable as reasonably possible while remaining consistent with ethical requirements, copyright law, participant privacy, cultural responsibilities, and legitimate restrictions on third-party materials.
