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JGMS publishes its articles under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike license (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0). This allows for the non-commercial reuse of the published paper so long as the published paper is fully attributed. Commercial re-use can only be undertaken with the permission of the publisher.

Authors who submit papers to JFINPH under a CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license do so under the Open Access facility and pay to have their paper freely available online. Authors will be asked to sign an Open Access license agreement prior to publication.

JFINPH not ask submitter that copyright to be transferred. However, we require sufficient rights to distribute submitted articles in perpetuity. In order to submit an article to JFINPH, the submitter must either:

  • Grant JFINPH a non-exclusive and irrevocable license to distribute the article, and certify that the submitter has the right to grant this license;
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