The Journal of Online Trust and Safety (JOTS) is a fully open-access journal. All articles published in JOTS are freely available to readers immediately upon publication, with no subscription, registration fee, or paywall. JOTS is committed to the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative and aims to make rigorous trust and safety research broadly accessible to scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and the public.

License

Articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Under this license, anyone is free to:

• Share — copy and redistribute the article in any medium or format
• Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material

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• Attribution — appropriate credit is given to the original authors, a link to the license is provided, and any changes are indicated;
• NonCommercial — the material is not used for commercial purposes;
• ShareAlike — any derivative works are distributed under the same CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

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Copyright

Authors retain full copyright of their work. By publishing in JOTS, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive license to publish the article, distribute it under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license, and identify JOTS as the original publisher.

Fees

JOTS charges no fees of any kind. There is no submission fee, no article processing charge (APC), no publication fee, and no fee for readers to access content. The journal is supported by the Tech Impact and Policy Center at Stanford University, with generous funding from the Omidyar Network.

Long-Term Preservation

JOTS articles are assigned persistent Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) and are preserved through [the Stanford Digital Repository / LOCKSS / CLOCKSS / Portico — confirm which applies] to ensure long-term accessibility.