Copyright, Licensing & Deposit Policies

CONTENT LICENSING

1. Authors grant the journal a right of the first publication of the work under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) that allows users 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 asking prior permission from the publisher or the author as long as they cite the source.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:

1. Authors hold copyright immediately after publication of their works and retain publishing rights without any restrictions.
2. The copyright commencement date complies the publication date of the issue, where the article is included in.

DEPOSIT POLICY

1. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) during the editorial process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
3. Post-print (post-refereeing manuscript version) and publisher's PDF-version self-archiving is allowed.
4. Archiving the pre-print (pre-refereeing manuscript version) not allowed.