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Open Access and Copyright Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Accordingly, the journal’s policies regarding access and copyright are as follows:
- Free and Open Access: All articles published in this journal are freely and immediately accessible to researchers, academics, and the general public without any embargo period. In accordance with the BOAI definition of open access, users are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without seeking prior permission from the publisher or the author.
- Copyright Retention: Authors retain unrestricted copyright and all intellectual property rights to their work. The authors grant the journal the right of first publication of the article.
- Licensing (Creative Commons): All articles are published under the terms of the Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC 4.0). This license permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original authors and the journal, and proper citation standards are maintained.
- Self-Archiving Policy: Authors are permitted and encouraged to self-archive the final published version of their article (Version of Record / Publisher’s PDF) on personal websites, institutional repositories, and academic networking sites (such as Google Scholar, Academia.edu, ResearchGate, etc.) immediately upon publication.
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