Open Access Statement

Open Access & Subscription Policy

Journal of Law of Torts and Consumer Protection Law (JLTCPL) operates a hybrid access model that combines subscription-based publishing with an optional open-access route for individual articles. Bibliographic metadata and the abstract of every article are freely available to all readers and to indexing services; access to the full text depends on the access type of the individual article, as described below.

1. Subscription Access (default)

JLTCPL is published primarily on a subscription basis. The full text of subscription articles is available to institutional subscribers through authenticated institutional IP ranges registered with the Journal, and to individual subscribers through a registered personal account after login. Abstracts and citation metadata for all articles remain openly accessible to support discovery, citation, and indexing.

2. Open Access Option (on author request)

At the author's request, an individual article may be published as Open Access. An open-access article is made freely and permanently available to all readers immediately upon publication — anyone may read, download, and share it — without a subscription. The open-access option is subject to the Journal's open-access charge and licensing terms; please contact the editorial office for details.

3. Licensing & Reader Rights for Open-Access Articles

Open-access articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Under this licence, readers are free to read, download, copy, and redistribute an open-access article in any medium or format for non-commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given to the author(s) and JLTCPL and that the work is not altered, transformed, or built upon. Authors retain the copyright of their work.

4. Subscription & Access Enquiries

For subscription rates, institutional access, or to request open-access publication of your accepted article, please contact the editorial office.

This hybrid model enables JLTCPL to sustain rigorous, independent peer review and professional editorial production while giving authors the choice to make their research openly available to a global readership.