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Articles published between 2014–2025 are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). Articles published from 2026 onwards are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

Licensing Policy

The journal applies two licensing models depending on the publication year:

For articles published between 2014–2025 (CC BY-NC 4.0):

  • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
  • Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material
  • Attribution — appropriate credit must be given
  • NonCommercial — no commercial use is permitted

For articles published from 2026 onwards (CC BY 4.0):

  • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
  • Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material
  • Attribution — appropriate credit must be given
  • Commercial use — permitted

Author Rights and Usage

  • Authors retain full copyright of their work.
  • The journal holds only the right of first publication under the applicable Creative Commons license.
  • Users must provide a full bibliographic citation of the original publication (authors, article title, journal title, volume, issue, pages, and DOI).
  • In electronic publishing, a link to the original article and to the Creative Commons license must also be included.