Copyright And License

By submitting the article/manuscript of the article, the author(s) agree with this policy. No specific document sign-off is required.

  1. License

The use of the article (remix, transform, or build upon the material) will be governed by the Creative Commons Attribution license as currently displayed on the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. 

  1. Author(s)' Warranties

The author warrants that the article is original, written by the stated author(s), has not been published before, contains no unlawful statements, does not infringe the rights of others, is subject to copyright that is vested exclusively in the author and free of any third party rights, and that any necessary written permissions to quote from other sources have been obtained by the author(s).

  1. User/Public Rights

JOSAPEN's spirit is to disseminate articles published as free as possible. Under the Creative Commons license, JOSAPEN permits users to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work. Users will also need to attribute authors and JOSAPEN to distributing works in the journal and other media of publication. Unless otherwise stated, the authors are public entities as soon as their articles are published. 

  1. Rights of Authors

Authors retain all their rights to the published works, such as (but not limited to) the following rights;

  • Copyright and other proprietary rights relating to the article, such as patent rights,
  • The right to use the substance of the article in own future works, including lectures and books,
  • The right to reproduce the article for own purposes,
  • The right to self-archive the article
  • The right to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the article's published version (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
  1. Co-Authorship

If the article was jointly prepared by more than one author, any author submitting the manuscript warrants that he/she has been authorized by all co-authors to agree on this copyright and license notice (agreement) on their behalf, and agrees to inform his/her co-authors of the terms of this policy. JOSAPEN will not be held liable for anything that may arise due to the author(s) internal dispute. JOSAPEN will only communicate with the corresponding author.

  1. Royalties

Being an open-accessed journal and disseminating articles for free under the Creative Commons license term mentioned, the author(s) are aware that JOSAPEN entitles the author(s) to no royalties or other fees. 

  1. Miscellaneous

JOSAPEN will publish the article (or have it published) in the journal if the article’s editorial process is completed. JOSAPEN's editors may modify the article to a style of punctuation, spelling, capitalization, referencing, and usage that deem appropriate. The author acknowledges that the article may be published so that it will be publicly accessible and such access will be free of charge for the readers as mentioned in point 3.