Open Access Policy

Africa Digital Governance and Law Review encourages wide distribution, accessibility, and use of the scholarly research. The Journal adopts an open access publication approach that is meant to increase the visibility, accessibility, distribution, and impact of scholarly research in digital law, regulation of technology, governance, public policy, and related interdisciplinary disciplines.

Access and Use

The published articles can be accessed via the official platform of the Journal, according to the copyright and licence agreement applicable to the specific article. Under the applicable licence agreement, the user may use the published articles by reading, downloading, copying, printing, citing, linking to, and distributing for any legitimate academic, educational, research, and non-commercial purposes, as long as the author(s) and the Africa Digital Governance and Law Review receive due credit.

Licensing

Articles may be published under a recognised open-access licence, including:

  1. Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY); or
  2. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC).

The specific licence applicable to each article shall be clearly stated on the article's publication page or within the published article.

Author Rights

The copyright of works lies with the author, in accordance with the provisions of the publication agreement and license. Prime Crest Publisher is authorized by the author to exercise the necessary rights for publishing, reproduction, archiving, distribution, communication, and dissemination of the article on appropriate print, electronic, and digital media.

Repository and Archiving Policy

Authors may deposit the accepted or published version of their article in the following:

  1. Institutional repositories;
  2. Subject repositories;
  3. Personal academic websites;
  4. Academic social networking sites; and
  5. Research repositories.

In case of depositing in any other repository, authors are required to cite the original publication of the Africa Digital Governance and Law Review.