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The Journal of Current Social Issues Studies (JCSIS) is dedicated to facilitating open access and responsible sharing of scholarly work. All articles published in JCSIS are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This license structure promotes unrestricted global access to research, supporting JCSIS’s mission of advancing knowledge across diverse social science fields. The following terms detail the rights and responsibilities of authors, users, and the publisher under this license:

Author Rights

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