Open Access, Copyright, and Licensing

Open Access Policy

Corporate Counseling Journal is committed to the principle of open access and supports the free dissemination of scholarly knowledge. All articles published in this journal are freely accessible to readers without subscription, payment, or access barriers. Users are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and link to the full text of articles, provided such use remains consistent with the journal’s licensing terms.

The journal follows the gold open access model. All published articles are made immediately available online upon publication without embargo periods or access restrictions. The journal believes that open access strengthens the global exchange of knowledge and increases the visibility, accessibility, and impact of scholarly research in counseling, psychosocial support, wellbeing, and organizational studies.

The journal does not charge any fees for submission, peer review, editorial processing, publication, or DOI registration. Authors are not required to pay Article Processing Charges (APCs). Authors remain responsible for ensuring that their manuscripts are ready for publication. If authors require additional services such as proofreading, language editing, copyediting, formatting, or translation, such services are arranged independently and any related costs remain the responsibility of the authors.

All published articles are preserved through the journal’s digital publishing system and indexing infrastructure to support long-term accessibility, discoverability, and scholarly preservation. The journal periodically reviews its open access practices in line with recognized standards in academic publishing and ethical scholarly communication.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with Corporate Counseling Journal retain the copyright of their work. By submitting and publishing manuscripts in this journal, authors grant the journal the right of first publication and the right to distribute, archive, and promote the published work as part of the journal publication.

All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This license permits users to copy, redistribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material for non-commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and source, a link to the license is provided, and any derivative works are distributed under the same license.

Under this license:

• Authors retain full copyright ownership of their articles.
• Readers may use and share the published material for non-commercial purposes.
• Proper citation and attribution to the original publication are required.
• Derivative or adapted works must be distributed under the same CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
• Commercial use of published materials requires additional permission from the copyright holder(s).

Authors are responsible for ensuring that submitted manuscripts do not infringe copyright, intellectual property rights, or publication ethics. Any third-party materials, including images, tables, figures, or extensive quotations, must be properly acknowledged and used with appropriate permission where necessary.

By publishing in this journal, authors confirm that the submitted work is original, has not been previously published, and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.