Permissions and Copyright

The Journal of Pastoral Catechetics (JPKAT) allows direct open access to all its contents based on the principle of making research open to the public, especially scholars, to support faster and more open scientific development globally. The journal encourages all scientific authors to allow the results of their research to be available openly, free of charge, and without time restrictions.

All articles are published on an Open Access basis so that they are immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and upload. However, under the CC BY 4.0 license, each author remains the copyright owner of their respective article, while granting permission for others to use the content of the article in JPKAT in part or in full as long as it is properly cited. Users of JPKAT are required to cite the original source by including at least: the full title of the article, the full name of the author(s), JPKAT as the name of the journal that published the article, the year of writing, and the edition number, using reasonable citation methods.

Copyright includes the exclusive right to reproduce and publish the article in all forms of media, including reprints, photographs, microfilms, or other means of reproduction, including translations. Any reproduction of this journal, in whole or in part, its storage in databases, as well as the dissemination of photocopies, scans, recordings, magnetic media in all forms of media, whether electronic, electrostatic or mechanical must comply with the license conditions stated below.

Journal of Pastoral Catechetics (JPKAT) is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International. (CC BY-4.0)

Every author who publishes his/her article in JPKAT agrees to follow the following conditions:

Authors retain Copyright to their articles, but grant permission to JPKAT as the first publisher and at the same time place them under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International (CC BY-4.0) license that grants others permission to distribute the work in conjunction with acknowledgement of the author's work and its first publication in this journal.
Authors are permitted to enter into a separate contract or agreement for some other form of distribution (e.g., a specific institutional repository or part of a specific book), provided that JPKAT is listed as the first place of publication.
Authors are allowed and encouraged to publish their work online (e.g., through institutional repositories or their own websites), but not in other OJSs as this will be detected by plagiarism-checking applications. Thus, the exchange and development of knowledge can occur more productively. Likewise, this will encourage earlier and more citations (see The Effect of Open Access).