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🔐 User Rights

All articles published open access in IJTIMES are immediately and permanently free for everyone to read, download, copy, and distribute. We offer authors a choice of user licences, which define the permitted reuse of articles. The available licences are listed below.

If you need to comply with your funding body policy you can apply for a CC BY licence after your manuscript is accepted for publication. Please contact the editorial office at editor.ijtimes@gmail.com to discuss your requirements.


🔓 Creative Commons Attribution

CC BY Most permissive — recommended for open access

✓ Permitted Uses

  • Distribute and copy the article.
  • Create extracts, abstracts, adaptations, or derivative works (such as translations).
  • Include in a collective work (such as an anthology).
  • Text or data mine the article.
  • Use for commercial purposes.

ⓘ Conditions

  • Give appropriate credit to the author(s) with a link to the published article via its DOI.
  • Include a link to the licence.
  • Indicate if changes were made.
  • Not represent the author(s) as endorsing the adaptation, or modify the article in a way that damages the authors' honour or reputation.

Full licence text: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/


🚫 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial

CC BY-NC Non-commercial use only

✓ Permitted Uses

  • Distribute and copy the article.
  • Create extracts, abstracts, adaptations, or derivative works (such as translations).
  • Include in a collective work (such as an anthology).
  • Text or data mine the article.

ⓘ Conditions

  • Permitted for non-commercial purposes only.
  • Give appropriate credit to the author(s) with a link to the published article via its DOI.
  • Include a link to the licence.
  • Indicate if changes were made.
  • Not represent the author(s) as endorsing the adaptation, or modify the article in a way that damages the authors' honour or reputation.

Full licence text: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/


🔒 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

CC BY-NC-ND Most restrictive — no derivatives, non-commercial only

✓ Permitted Uses

  • Distribute and copy the article.
  • Include in a collective work (such as an anthology).

ⓘ Conditions

  • Permitted for non-commercial purposes only.
  • Give appropriate credit to the author(s) with a link to the published article via its DOI.
  • Provide a link to the licence.
  • Do not alter or modify the article in any way.

Full licence text: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/


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