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Before publication

Authors keep the copyright of their work before publication, unless an employment agreement requires them to transfer it to their employer. A manuscript may be submitted only by authors who own its copyright or who have permission from the copyright owner.

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After acceptance

After acceptance, the authors assign the copyright to the journal, together with the rights to publish and distribute the article, by signing the Copyright Transfer Agreement. Authors keep their scholarly rights, including the right to deposit their work as set out in the Self-Archiving and Repository policy.

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Licence

Articles are published open access under CC BY-SA 4.0. Readers may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link, adapt, and build on the full texts, with credit to the authors and the journal, and must share adapted material under the same licence. See Licensing Terms.

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Third-party material

Material from other sources may be under different terms, as stated in its caption. See Permissions and Third-Party Material.

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Related

Licensing Terms  ·  Open Access Policy  ·  Self-Archiving  ·  Intellectual Property

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Sources

This policy is based on the guidance of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE):