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The author gives his rights to the journal by signing the copyright transfer form. The submitted papers are assumed to contain no proprietary material unprotected by patent or patent application; responsibility for technical content and for protection of proprietary material rests solely with the author(s) and their organizations and is not the responsibility of the EJEAS or its Editorial Staff. The main (first/corresponding) author is responsible for ensuring that the article has been seen and approved by all the other authors. It is the responsibility of the author to obtain all necessary copyright release permissions for the use of any copyrighted materials in the manuscript prior to the submission.
What are my rights as author?
It is important to check the policy for the journal to which you are submitting or publishing to establish your rights as Author. EJEAS’s standard policies allow the following re-use rights:
The journal does not allow the author(s) to hold the copyright without restrictions. The journal does not allow the author(s) to obtain publishing rights without restrictions. You may not do whatever you wish with the version of the article you submitted to the journal. Once the article has been accepted for publication, you may not post the accepted version of the article on your own personal website, your department’s website or the repository of your institution without any restrictions.
You may not post the accepted version of the article in any repository other than those listed above (i.e. you may not deposit in the repository of another institution or a subject-matter repository) until 12 months after publication of the article in the journal.
You may not post the published article on a website or in a repository without permission from EJEAS.