Licensing Terms

In submitting an article to any of the journals published by Wah Academia I certify that:

  1.  I am authorized by my co-authors to enter into these arrangements.

  2.  I warrant, on behalf of myself and my co-authors, that:

    • the article is original, has not been formally published in any other peer-reviewed journal, is not under consideration by any other journal and does not infringe any existing copyright or any other third-party rights;

    • I am/we are the sole author(s) of the article and have full authority to enter into this agreement and in granting rights to Wah Academia are not in breach of any other obligation;

    • the article contains nothing that is unlawful, libelous, or which would, if published, constitute a breach of contract or of confidence or of commitment given to secrecy;

    • I/we have taken due care to ensure the integrity of the article. To my/our - and currently accepted scientific - knowledge all statements contained in it purporting to be facts are true and any formula or instruction contained in the article will not, if followed accurately, cause any injury, illness or damage to the user.

 

  1.  I, and all co-authors, agree that the article, if editorially accepted for publication, shall be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0. If the law requires that the article be published in the public domain, I/we will notify Wah Academia at the time of submission, and in such cases the article shall be released under the Creative Commons 1.0 Public Domain Dedication waiver. For the avoidance of doubt, it is stated that sections 1 and 2 of this license agreements shall apply and prevail regardless of whether the article is published under Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0

 

  1.  I, and all co-authors, agree that, if the article is editorially accepted for publication in Wah Academia data included in the article shall be made available under the Creative Commons 1.0 Public Domain Dedication waiver, unless otherwise stated. For the avoidance of doubt, it is stated that sections 1, 2, and 3 of this license agreements shall apply and prevail.

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Explanatory notes regarding Wah Academia’s license agreement

​As an aid to our authors, the following paragraphs provide some brief explanations concerning the Creative Commons licenses that apply to the articles published in Wah Academia and the rationale for why we have chosen these licenses.

The Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), of which CC BY 4.0 is the most recent version, was developed to facilitate open access as defined in the founding documents of the movement, such as the 2003 Berlin Declaration. Open access content has to be freely available online, and through licensing their work under CC BY authors grant users the right to unrestricted dissemination and re-use of the work, with only the one proviso that proper attribution is given to authors.

This liberal licensing is best suited to facilitate the transfer and growth of scientific knowledge. The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) therefore strongly recommends the use of CC BY for the open access publication of research literature, and many research funders worldwide either recommend or mandate that research they have supported be published under CC BY.

The Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 provides the following summary (where ‘you’ equals ‘the user’):

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You are free to:

  • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format

  • Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. 

The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms

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Under the following terms:

  • Attribution— you must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

  • No additional restrictions—you may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

 

Notices
You do not have to comply with the license for elements of the material in the public domain or where your use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation. No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material.

It is important to differentiate between legal requirements and community norms. It is first and foremost a community norm, not a law, that within the researcher community attribution mostly takes the form of citation. It is also a community norm that researchers are expected to refer to their sources, which usually takes the form of citation. Across all cases of research reuse (including data, code, etc.), community norms will apply as is appropriate for the situation: researchers will cite their sources where it is feasible, regardless of the applicable license.

  • When using or citing the work, you should not imply endorsement by the author or the affirmer.