Social, Human and Administrative Sciences adopts open access policy. Open access to information benefits the humanity as it improves the global value of information. Social, Human and Administrative Sciences also supports the Budapest Open Access Initiative that was signed on September 12, 2012. Thus, the open access policies adopted by the editorial board of Social, Human and Administrative Sciences can be found at http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai-10-recommendations.

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Social, Human and Administrative Sciences recommends that libraries include the article contents into library catalogue records.