In brief

01Copyright ownership

From 2027 onwards	Authors retain copyright of their scholarly works and grant JPPM the non-exclusive right of first publication.
Up to and including 2026	Copyright ownership follows the journal’s applicable copyright terms at the time of publication.
Policy changes	Changes to the journal’s copyright policy do not automatically alter the copyright arrangements governing previously published articles.

02Licensing policy

Articles published from 2027 onwards are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). License information: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Under this license, users are permitted to:

Share	Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
Adapt	Remix, transform, and build upon the material for non-commercial purposes.

These permissions are subject to the following conditions:

Attribution (BY)	Users must provide appropriate credit to the original authors, acknowledge the initial publication in JPPM, provide a link to the license, and indicate whether changes have been made.
NonCommercial (NC)	The material may not be used for commercial purposes without separate authorization from the copyright holder.
ShareAlike (SA)	Adapted materials must be distributed under the same license as the original work.

Users must not impose additional legal or technological restrictions that prevent others from exercising the rights granted by the license.

03Authors’ rights

Authors publishing under the applicable author-retained copyright arrangement may:

• Deposit their published articles in institutional or disciplinary repositories.
• Share their articles through personal or institutional academic websites.
• Use their published work for teaching, research, and other lawful scholarly purposes.
• Enter into separate, non-exclusive distribution arrangements consistent with the applicable license.

Appropriate acknowledgment of the original publication in JPPM must be maintained.

04Third-party materials

Authors are responsible for obtaining necessary permissions for copyrighted materials included in their manuscripts, such as figures, photographs, illustrations, tables, and other third-party content.

Materials not covered by the article’s Creative Commons license must be clearly identified.

05Open access and distribution

JPPM provides immediate open access to published scholarly content to promote the accessibility, dissemination, and exchange of educational knowledge.

Readers may access, download, and share published articles in accordance with the license applicable to each article.

06Author agreement

By submitting a manuscript for publication, authors confirm that they possess the necessary rights to publish the work and agree to the copyright and licensing terms applicable to the article.

Authors also grant JPPM permission to publish, disseminate, preserve, and index the accepted article in accordance with the journal’s publishing agreement.

07Copyright infringement

Allegations of copyright infringement will be investigated by the Editorial Board.

Where necessary, the journal may request documentation, consult the relevant copyright holders, or take appropriate corrective action consistent with publication ethics and applicable law.