Archive Policy and Repository Policy

Journal of Social Governance and Public Administration (SOGPA) is committed to the long-term preservation and accessibility of all published scholarly content.

The journal maintains digital archives of published articles to ensure their continued availability and accessibility for researchers, academics, practitioners, and the wider public.

SOGPA also supports the preservation and dissemination of its published content through appropriate digital repositories, indexing services, and academic platforms where applicable.

The journal is committed to maintaining the integrity, accessibility, and long-term availability of its published scholarly record.

Repository Policy

SOGPA allows authors to deposit and share different versions of their scholarly work in institutional repositories, subject-based repositories, and other academic repositories of their choice.

Authors are permitted to deposit the following versions of their manuscripts:

  1. Submitted Version (Preprint): The original manuscript submitted to SOGPA before peer review.

  2. Accepted Version (Author Accepted Manuscript): The manuscript incorporating revisions following the peer-review process and accepted for publication.

  3. Published Version (Version of Record): The final published article available on the official SOGPA website.

Authors may deposit and share these versions in institutional repositories, personal websites, and academic platforms, provided that the original publication in SOGPA is properly acknowledged.

For published articles, authors must include the article title, journal name (SOGPA), publication year, volume, issue, page numbers or article number (where applicable), and the DOI or original article URL.

All deposited versions must retain the applicable Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.

This policy aims to support wider dissemination, accessibility, and long-term availability of scholarly publications while ensuring proper attribution to the original publication.