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  1. Articles in the Journal are Open Access contents published under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0) International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.  This license permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work and source are properly cited.
  2. The Journal's copyright policy is based on a non-exclusive publishing agreement, according to which the Journal retains the right of first publication, but the author(s) are free to publish their work subsequently. The copyright of all work rests with the author(s). 
  3. The users may use, reproduce, disseminate, or display the article(s) provided that the author(s) are attributed as the original creators and that the reuse is restricted to non-commercial purposes, i.e., research or other educational use. Authors are encouraged to familiarise themselves with the various Creative Commons licenses.
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Open Access Policy

  1. The Journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global knowledge exchange. The Journal is an “open access” journal that gives online access and other access barriers free of charge.
  2. The Journal supports the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing, which defines an open access journal as one that grants a "free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit, and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship" and from which every article is "deposited immediately upon initial publication in at least one online repository."
  3. As an open-access publication model, The Journal enables a free-of-cost dissemination of refereed research to the global community. The Journal is committed to achieving the highest quality of scientific research to drive progress in academic research with innovation. The Journal partially levies article-publishing charges to cover the cost of the publication. Authors publishing with The Journal retain the copyright to their work, allowing the articles to be reused and re-distributed without restriction as long as the original work is correctly cited. The Journal supports the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing. The Journal has been helping students, scholars, researchers, professionals, scientific societies, and academic institutions to achieve their goals in an ever-changing world. By partnering with learned institutions and societies, The Journal supports researchers to communicate discoveries that make a difference.