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Asian Review of Social Sciences (ARSS) is published by the Centre for Research and Innovation (CRI) under a Gold Open Access model. This policy explains copyright ownership, the Creative Commons licence applied to published articles, author reuse and repository rights, third-party permissions, and the copyright notice used on ARSS article webpages and published PDFs.

Upon acceptance for publication in ARSS, the author(s) or other lawful copyright holder complete the ARSS Author Declaration and Copyright Form. Under the current policy, copyright in the published Version of Record transfers to the Centre for Research and Innovation (CRI) upon publication. CRI may publish, reproduce, distribute, archive, preserve, index, disseminate, license and protect the Version of Record in accordance with ARSS policies.

2. Open Access Licence

All ARSS articles are made immediately and permanently available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Users may copy and redistribute the unchanged published article for non-commercial purposes with appropriate credit and acknowledgement of the original ARSS publication.

The licence does not permit commercial use or distribution of modified, adapted, translated, remixed or derivative versions without additional permission from the copyright holder.

For 2026 publications: © 2026 Centre for Research and Innovation (CRI). This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. For future articles, the year should match the actual year of publication.

4. Author Rights and Scholarly Reuse

Authors may deposit the submitted manuscript, accepted manuscript and published Version of Record in appropriate scholarly repositories without an embargo, subject to the current ARSS policy. When sharing the Version of Record, it must remain unchanged and retain the complete citation, DOI/permanent link, CRI copyright notice, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence and acknowledgement of ARSS and CRI.

5. Version of Record Sharing

Authors and readers may share the published Version of Record for non-commercial purposes under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. The Version of Record must not be altered, translated, adapted or otherwise modified for redistribution unless additional permission is obtained.

6. Third-Party Material and Permissions

Authors are responsible for ensuring that third-party figures, tables, photographs, substantial text extracts and other protected material are used with appropriate permission and acknowledgement. Material excluded from the article’s Creative Commons licence should be clearly identified by a credit line or rights statement.

7. Author Declaration

The corresponding author, where authorised by all co-authors, confirms originality, author approval, required permissions, conflict and funding disclosures, ethical compliance, and authority to enter into the copyright agreement on behalf of the authors where applicable.

8. Digital Preservation and Archiving

ARSS supports long-term access through its preservation arrangements, including the PKP Preservation Network. Copyright and licence information should remain associated with preserved and archived copies of the Version of Record.

9. Relationship with Other ARSS Policies

This policy operates together with the Open Access Policy, Author Guidelines, Publication Ethics statement and the Copyright Form.

10. Contact

Questions concerning copyright, licensing, permissions or reuse may be sent to the ARSS editorial office at editorial@crijournals.org.

Related ARSS pages: Open Access Policy | Copyright Form | Author Guidelines | Publication Ethics & Publication Malpractice Statement | Privacy Policy