Copyright, Licensing & Deposit Policies
Copyright Notice
The authors agree to the following terms:
- Authors hold copyright immediately after publication of their works and retain publishing rights without any restrictions.
- The copyright commencement date complies with the issue's publication date, where the article is included.
Content Licensing
- Authors grant the journal a right of the first publication of the work under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)that allows others freely to use (read, copy and print) submissions, search content and link to published articles, disseminate their full text and use them for any legitimate non-commercial purposes (i.e. educational or scientific) with the mandatory reference to the article’s authors and initial publication in this journal.
- Original published articles cannot be used by users (except authors) for commercial purposes or distributed by third-party intermediary organizations for a fee.
Deposit Policy
Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) during the editorial process, as this can lead to productive exchanges and earlier and more extraordinary citations of published work.
Authors can enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., posting it to an institutional repository or publishing it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
Post-print (post-refereeing manuscript version) and publisher's PDF-version self-archiving is allowed.
Archiving the pre-print (pre-refereeing manuscript version) is not allowed.
