Privacy Policy

Privacy Statement & Archiving Policy

The names and email addresses entered in the journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party. The data collected from registered and non-registered users of this journal falls within the scope of the standard functioning of peer-reviewed journals. The journal’s editorial team collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with the journal. It includes information that makes communication possible for the editorial process; it is used to inform readers about the authorship and editing of content and it enables collecting aggregated data on readership behaviors. Data that will assist in developing this publishing platform may be shared with its developer Public Knowledge Project in an anonymized and aggregated form, with appropriate exceptions such as article metrics. The data will not be sold by this journal or PKP nor will it be used for purposes other than those stated here. The authors published in this journal are responsible for the human subject data that figures in the research reported here. 

Self-archiving of papers published open access

Authors are encouraged to deposit the final published PDF in their institutional repository or any suitable subject repository. Authors should provide a link from the deposited version to the URL of the publisher's website; in all cases, the requirement to link to the publisher’s website is designed to protect the integrity and authenticity of the scientific record, with the online published version on the publisher’s website clearly identified as the definitive version of record.

  • The version of record of this article, first published in [Journal name], is available online at Publisher’s website: http://dx.doi.org/[insert DOI]

Digital Archiving

The journal participates in the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) to guarantee the permanent preservation of published articles. The PKP Preservation Network provides secure and decentralized archiving to ensure that journal content remains accessible to the scholarly community over time.

Repository and Self-Archiving Policy

The journal supports the broad dissemination of scholarly research and allows authors to deposit versions of their work in institutional repositories, subject repositories, personal websites, or other open-access repositories.

Articles published in the journal are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Authors may therefore archive and share the following versions of their work:

  • Submitted manuscript (preprint)

  • Accepted manuscript (postprint)

  • Final published version (version of record)