Open Access Policy

MATAI: International Journal of Language Education (ISSN 2774-6356) is a fully open access journal. All content published in this journal is immediately and permanently free for everyone to read, download, copy, and distribute, in accordance with the definition of open access of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI).

What this means

• Immediate and free access: every article is freely available online on the journal website immediately upon publication. There are no embargo periods and no subscription barriers of any kind — no financial, legal, or technical barriers to reading the content.
• Licensing: all articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, including commercially, provided the original work is properly cited.
• Copyright: authors retain the copyright of their articles. Authors grant the journal the right of first publication. Details are stated in our Copyright Notice.
• No hidden charges: our fee policy is stated transparently on the Article Processing Charges page.

This policy complies with the open access criteria of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), which requires that open access journals provide free, immediate, online access to the full text of all content, with clearly stated user rights through an open license.