ECJ

Repository Policy

REPOSITORY POLICY

English Community Journal (ECJ) supports the open dissemination, accessibility, and long-term availability of scholarly research. The journal permits authors to deposit and share different versions of their manuscripts through institutional repositories, subject-based repositories, personal websites, institutional websites, and scholarly sharing platforms, including Academia.edu and other recognized academic platforms.

Authors may deposit the following versions of their articles:

  • Submitted Manuscript (Preprint): The original manuscript submitted to English Community Journal before undergoing peer review.

  • Accepted Manuscript (Postprint): The revised manuscript accepted for publication following peer review but before final copyediting, typesetting, and journal production.

  • Published Version of Record: The final, officially published version of the article available on the English Community Journal website.

Embargo Policy

English Community Journal permits authors to deposit the submitted manuscript, accepted manuscript, and published version of record without an embargo period, subject to the applicable copyright and licensing conditions.

Authors may make these versions publicly accessible immediately upon their availability.

Repository Deposit Requirements

Authors are responsible for ensuring that deposited manuscripts are accurately identified and appropriately attributed.

After publication, repository records should include:

  • The complete article title and author names.

  • The journal title, volume, issue, publication year, and page range or article identifier.

  • The Digital Object Identifier (DOI), where available, or a permanent URL linking to the published article.

  • A clear indication of the deposited manuscript version.

  • Appropriate copyright and licensing information.

Authors are encouraged to link deposited copies to the official published article to ensure accurate citation, attribution, and recognition of the version of record.

Copyright and Licensing

The published version of articles in English Community Journal is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

This license permits sharing and adaptation, including for commercial purposes, provided that users give appropriate credit to the original authors, acknowledge publication in English Community Journal, provide a link to the license, indicate any modifications, and distribute adaptations under the same license.

Third-party materials identified as separately licensed remain subject to their respective copyright restrictions and permission requirements.

Through this policy, English Community Journal encourages responsible scholarly sharing, wider research visibility, and sustainable access to academic publications in English Language Education, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, and Literature and Cultural Studies.