Copyright and Licensing

Copyright

Authors who publish in our journal retain full copyright of their work without restrictions. By submitting an article to the editorial board, authors grant the journal the right of first publication under a Creative Commons license, which allows others to freely distribute the article with mandatory attribution and a link to the original source of publication in this journal.

Licensing Policy

All materials of the journal are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

This license allows others to freely copy, distribute, remix, adapt, and use the material in any medium or format under the following conditions:

  1. Users must provide proper attribution, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. This must be done reasonably, but not in any way that suggests the author or the publisher endorses the user or their use of the work.
  2. The material may not be used for commercial purposes. The full legal text of the license is available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Author Guarantees and Third-Party Materials

By submitting a manuscript, authors guarantee that:

  1. The work is original, has not been published previously, and is not under consideration by other journals.
  2. The use of any third-party materials (photographs, charts, diagrams, etc.) protected by copyright has been agreed upon with the rights holders, and appropriate permissions have been provided to the editorial board.
  3. The article does not contain plagiarism and does not violate the intellectual property rights of any third parties.

Self-Archiving Policy and Author Rights

Authors have the right to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-commercial distribution of the published version of the work (e.g., posting it in an institutional repository, on personal websites, or on scientific portals) provided that an acknowledgement of the first publication in this journal is included.

We encourage authors to share the "version of record" of their article immediately upon publication to increase citation and facilitate the open exchange of scientific data.