Copyright and Licensing

The Journal of Sports, Exercise, and Performance (JOSEP) supports the visibility, shareability, and scholarly use of scientific works published under open access principles. Copyright and licensing processes are arranged to protect author rights while increasing the accessibility of scholarly knowledge.

Copyright Ownership

Authors retain the copyright of articles published in JOSEP. By publishing in JOSEP, authors grant the journal the right of first publication. Accordingly, the journal has the right to publish, make available online, archive, index, and disseminate the article through scholarly databases and metadata services.

Authors may share their published articles on personal websites, institutional repositories, academic platforms, and open access databases. Such sharing must include proper citation to the final published version in JOSEP.

Licensing Policy

Unless otherwise stated, articles published in JOSEP are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

This license permits reading, downloading, sharing, copying, distributing, adapting, and using the article for scholarly or scientific purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given.

Any use under this license must clearly cite the authors, article title, journal title, publication year, volume, issue, page information, and DOI.

License Statement

Articles published in JOSEP are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), provided that proper attribution is given.

Author Rights

  • Authors retain the copyright of their published work.
  • Authors may share their articles on personal or institutional websites.
  • Authors may deposit their published articles in academic networks and open access repositories.
  • Authors may use their articles in teaching materials, presentations, reports, or scholarly works.
  • Authors may reuse their articles, provided that proper citation is given to the final published version in JOSEP.

Reader and User Rights

Readers and users may access articles published in JOSEP free of charge. Articles may be used for research, education, scholarly work, citation, review, presentation, and similar academic purposes.

When using published articles, the original source must be clearly acknowledged, authors must be properly cited, and the content must not be modified in a misleading way.

Third-Party Content

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to use tables, figures, photographs, scales, test protocols, software outputs, or other third-party materials included in their manuscripts. Materials owned by third parties must be properly acknowledged and used with permission when required.

Third-party materials may not be covered by the general open access license of the article. Reuse of such materials may be subject to the terms set by the respective rights holders.

Journal Publication Rights

By publishing in JOSEP, authors grant the journal the right of first publication. JOSEP may make published articles available on the journal website, archive them, manage DOI and bibliographic metadata processes, and provide metadata to relevant platforms for indexing and discovery.

These processes are carried out to increase the academic visibility and long-term accessibility of published articles.

Proper Attribution Requirement

When an article published in JOSEP is used or shared, complete and accurate citation must be provided. Citation information should include the author name, article title, journal title, year, volume, issue, page range, and DOI.

Balance Between Open Access and Copyright

JOSEP adopts a balanced approach between open access principles and author rights. The journal supports broad dissemination of scholarly content while ensuring that authors’ academic work is properly recognized and cited.