Copyright of papers published by EJSS must be assigned to Ethiopian Journal  of  Social  Sciences  by  the  corresponding  author  unless copyright already belongs to a prior publisher. EJSS has never refused reprint permission to authors and does not charge for this unless the reprinting (including posting on a website) is for commercial purposes.

The Journal will feature Research articles, Book reviews, Messages and letters. 

Manuscripts, or parts thereof, or comments of reviewers, is protected from any personal use by editors, reviewers or journal staff.

 Taking another person's work (or part of a work) as your own is plagiarism. Plagiarism ranges  from  the  un-referenced  use  nonpublished  others’  ideas,  including  published research grant applications, to submission sometimes in a different language.

All sources should be disclosed, and if an illustrative material is to be used, permission must be sought.