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All articles published by GYSJ are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

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Author Copyright Retention

Authors retain 100% copyright ownership of their published work. GYSJ does not require authors to transfer copyright control.

Self-Archiving & Repository Rights

Authors have the immediate right to deposit their published PDF (version of record) in institutional repositories, university archives, preprint servers (e.g. arXiv, bioRxiv), research networks, and personal websites immediately upon publication.

Digital Preservation & Archiving Networks

Published content is digitally preserved across international digital networks including the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN), CLOCKSS, LOCKSS, and Crossref persistent DOIs. Read full details on our Archiving Policy page and discover metadata harvesting via our OAI-PMH Gateway.