Copyright Policy

Authors submitting their works for publication in the journal agree to the following terms:

• Authors retain the copyright to their works and grant the journal the right of first publication. The work is published under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows others to freely distribute the material with mandatory attribution to the authors and the first publication in the journal.
• Authors have the right to enter into additional agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the work in its published form (e.g., placing it in institutional repositories or using it in monographs) with a citation of the first publication in the journal.
• The journal encourages authors to make their manuscripts openly accessible on the Internet (e.g., in repositories or on personal websites) both before submission and during the editorial process. This promotes active scientific discussion, improves the visibility of the work, and increases citation rates (see The Effect of Open Access).