ELLITE: English Language, Literature, and Teaching Journal provides immediate open access to its scholarly content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. This open-access commitment strongly aligns with the core expectations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), which require journals to clearly state their access policies and ensure that readers are fully informed about how they can access published materials (COPE Principles of Transparency).

Under this open-access framework, users are freely allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. By clearly articulating these user rights without any ambiguity, the journal fulfills COPE’s strict mandate that all conditions for open access, including specific copyright retention or licensing terms, must be explicitly transparent on the journal's website to prevent any unethical exploitation of the authors' intellectual property (COPE Topic: Intellectual Property).

Open access publishing also fundamentally demands responsible data stewardship to ensure that freely accessible research remains a permanent, unmodified part of the scholarly record. Therefore, ELLITE guarantees that all open-access articles and their related supplementary data are sustainably preserved, which directly supports COPE's ethical guidelines emphasizing the importance of scientific reproducibility and rigorous open data availability (COPE Topic: Data and Reproducibility).

The journal guarantees that the open-access publishing model, including any potential financial structures or operational costs, will never influence the editorial decision-making or peer review process. We strictly adhere to COPE's core practices regarding journal management, ensuring that all editorial acceptances are based solely on academic merit, originality, and ethical soundness, entirely independent of the journal's open-access funding or business model (COPE Topic: Journal Management).