Copyright and Licensing
What is copyright?
Copyright is a type of intellectual property which protects certain sorts of original creative work, including academic articles. Copyright allows the creator of a work to decide whether, and under what conditions, their work may be used, published and distributed by others. As such, it governs how others can use, publish and distribute articles.
Understanding your copyright options as an author is becoming ever more important, especially with the growth of open access publishing.
Open access makes published academic research freely and permanently available online. Anyone, anywhere can read and build upon this research.
In 2002, the Budapest Open Access Initiative set out the potential benefits of unrestricted access to scholarly content:
“accelerate research, enrich education, share the learning of the rich with the poor and the poor with the rich, make this literature as useful as it can be, and lay the foundation for uniting humanity in a common intellectual conversation and quest for knowledge.”
The number of authors choosing to publish open access has surged in recent years, seeing it as an opportunity to broaden the impact of their work. Many funders and institutions now also require open access publication of research. However, there is still much variation in the uptake of open access between geographical regions and areas of academic study.
Open access (OA) isn’t just about others being able to read your research without barriers. OA also gives researchers greater opportunity to build upon the work of others. Most OA articles have a Creative Commons license which explains how others can use them. In some cases, it may give complete freedom to reuse and repurpose the published work. Regardless, it’s always necessary to acknowledge the original author.
Horizon has adopted open access research policy. If you choose to publish with us, this would mean you can comply with any funder requirements and ensure your research makes a difference.
JHSSR provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making
research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
All articles in the Journal are published open access under a Creative Commons
Attribution license (CC BY 4.0). Authors transfer the copyright to Horizon Journal/ B.P.
Publishing. This copyright transfer enables the Journal to protect the copyrighted material
for the authors but does not relinquish the authors’ proprietary rights. The copyright transfer covers the exclusive rights to reproduce and distribute the article, including
reprints, photographic reproductions, microfilm or any other reproductions of similar
nature and translations. Authors are responsible for obtaining from the copyright holder
permission to reproduce any materials for which copyright exists
The works are released under a Creative Commons license (CC BY 4.0), which provides
unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original
work is properly cited. Users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print,
search, or link to the full texts of articles in this Journal and to use them for any other
lawful purpose.
Licensing
Horizon publishes under the open access publishing— Attribution (CC BY) under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Further details. Click here https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
All articles published in Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Research (JHSSR) are
licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which 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
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.
This is defined as journals where the copyright holder of a scholarly work grants
usage rights to others using an open license (Creative Commons or equivalent)
allowing for immediate free access to the work and permitting any user to read,
download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl
them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful
purpose.
CC BY
This license lets others distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon your work, even
commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This license offers
for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.
- Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
- Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even
commercially.
