COPYRIGHT ISSUES AND ARCHIVING, PUBLISHER’S LICENSE FOR USE, AUTHORS’ SELF-ARCHIVING

Authors are requested to sign an Author Copyright and Publication Rights Declaration concerning the Open Access publication of the works, and the archiving thereof in Prosperitas’ Repository.

Publisher has the exclusive right to publish the article first. Authors shall accept that the work will be published by Publisher openly licensed using the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any data related to the work, including its reference list(s) and its additional files, shall be distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).

Based on the above, Authors are entitled to self-archive the preprint version of their manuscripts. (The preprint version is the Authors’ manuscript or the Authors’ manuscript along with the corrections made in the course of the peer review process.) Authors’ right to self-archive is irrespective of the format of the preprint (.doc, .rtf, .pdf, etc.) version. Lawful self-archiving also extends to the free circulation of this file via e-mail or by publication on the Author’s webpage, in the Author’s institutional repository with open or restricted access, or in any repository mandated by the Author or the Authors’ funding body. When self-archiving a paper, Authors shall clearly declare that the archived file is not the final published version of the paper, Authors shall quote the correct citation of the final paper, and shall enclose a link in the self-archived paper to the final published paper using the DOI link (https://doi.org/…) of the published work.