Open Access Policy

The journal operates under the Open Access model, meaning its content is freely accessible to all and utilizes the Creative Commons CC BY license (Attribution). Additionally, no fees are charged for publishing articles in Applied Linguistics: Innovative Approaches and Emerging Trends. The journal aligns with the Open Access definition from the DOAJ website (https://doaj.org/apply/guide/), where "the copyright holder of an academic work grants usage rights to others via an open license (Creative Commons or similar) allowing for instant free access to the work and enabling any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to the full text of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or utilize them for any other lawful purpose"