Copyright And License

Copyright & Licensing Policy

The Journal is dedicated to open-research practices, supporting the free flow of knowledge and global dissemination of scholarly work. All articles are published under an Open Access model.

1. Copyright Policy

  • Author Ownership: Authors retain full copyright of their published work without restrictions.

  • Publishing Rights: Upon acceptance, authors grant the Journal a non-exclusive license to publish, archive, and distribute the article in print and digital formats, as well as index its metadata in international databases.

2. Open Access Licensing

All articles published in the Journal are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Under this license, readers and the public are free to:

  • Share: Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.

  • Adapt: Remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

Under the following terms:

  • Attribution: Appropriate credit must be given to the original author(s) and the Journal, a link to the CC license must be provided, and any changes made must be clearly indicated.

  • ShareAlike: If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

3. Self-Archiving & Reuse Rights

  • Authors are permitted and encouraged to share their work (including preprints, postprints, and final publisher PDFs) in institutional repositories, personal websites, and academic networks immediately upon publication under the CC BY-SA 4.0 terms.

  • Proper attribution and a link to the article's active Digital Object Identifier (DOI) on the Journal’s website are required for all secondary distributions.