Open Access Policy

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, based on the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, each author or author remains the copyright owner of their respective articles, while still giving permission for others to use the contents of the article concerned in JUMPA in part or in full as long as they are properly cited. JPKAT users 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)