Asian Ethnology Open Access and Copyright Policies

Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access. Acceptance of these conditions is implied by the author’s consent to publish in Asian Ethnology.

Asian Ethnology does not require any article processing charges (APCs), submission charges, page charges, and so forth to complete the publication process. The author, however, is responsible for obtaining permission for use of illustrations and covering costs related to such permission.

Copyright for essays and book reviews published in Asian Ethnology belongs to the journal (Nanzan University). Asian Ethnology will readily grant permission for the reprinting of essays and reviews, or for their reproduction for classroom use, in line with our Open Access policy and Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

For further details on our peer review process, see the Asian Ethnology Manuscript Submission and Style Guide..