Copyright and Licensing Policy

Copyright and Licensing Policy

License and Copyright Agreement

By submitting a manuscript to the Journal of Science and Knowledge Horizons (JSKP), authors confirm that:

  • They have obtained authorization from all co-authors to enter into this agreement.
  • The submitted work has not been previously published, except in abstract form or as part of a lecture, review, dissertation, or similar publication.
  • The manuscript is not under consideration for publication in any other journal.
  • All authors and responsible authorities from the affiliated institutions have approved the submission.
  • They have obtained the necessary permissions to reproduce any previously published or copyrighted material.

Authors agree to the following terms:

Copyright

Authors who publish with JSKP retain copyright over their work but grant the journal the right of first publication. The work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0), available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.

This license allows users to:

  • Share, copy, distribute, and transmit the work in any format.
  • Adapt the work by remixing, transforming, or building upon it.

However, users may not use the work for commercial purposes.

User Rights

Under the terms of the CC BY-NC 4.0 license, authors and copyright holders grant all users the free, irrevocable, worldwide, and perpetual right to:

  • Access the work without restriction.
  • Copy, use, distribute, transmit, publicly display, and create derivative works from the work, provided appropriate credit is given to the authors.
  • Print a small number of copies for personal use.

Archiving and Open Access

A complete copy of the work and supplementary materials will be deposited in at least one online repository supported by an academic institution, government agency, or another established organization, ensuring open access, unrestricted distribution, and long-term preservation.

and registered in the Directory of Open Access Repositories - https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/44770

The journal uses the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) to digitally preserve all the published articles. The PKP PN is a part of LOCKSS

Data Release License

Authors are encouraged to include persistent identifiers (e.g., DOI) for datasets in the Data or Software Resources section of the article. Datasets and software references should be listed in the article’s references, with numeric identifiers provided where available.

In the absence of a domain-specific repository, authors should deposit their datasets in a public repository such as Dataverse. Small datasets may also be published as supplementary materials to the article, although deposition in a recognized data repository is preferred.

Benefits of Open Access

Publishing open access through JSKP offers numerous advantages, including increased visibility, wider dissemination, and potentially higher citation rates for the authors' work.

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