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Rights and Reuse
Copyright and Licensing
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Author rights and ownership
Reuse, sharing, and attribution
Permissions and licensing terms
Copyright and Reuse Framework
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Reuse
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Permissions
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Licensing Policy
Detailed Copyright and Licensing Terms
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Research and Science Today (RST) is an open access journal. All articles published in this journal are made immediately and permanently available online without any access restrictions or embargo periods.
All content is published under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Under this license, users are free to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and link to the full texts of the articles, as well as to adapt and build upon the material for non-commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and the source, a link to the license is included, and any changes made are clearly indicated.
The use of published materials for commercial purposes is not permitted without prior written permission from the author(s) and/or the publisher.
Authors retain full copyright of their work without restrictions, in accordance with Romanian Law No. 8/1996 on copyright and related rights, republished, with subsequent modifications and completions.
By submitting and publishing in Research and Science Today, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive, worldwide license to publish, reproduce, distribute, and make the work publicly available in both electronic and print formats.
No additional legal or technical restrictions may be applied that would prevent others from exercising the rights granted by the license.
Authors are responsible for ensuring that any third-party materials included in their manuscript (such as figures, tables, or images) comply with copyright requirements and that all necessary permissions have been obtained prior to publication.
For more information about the license, please visit:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/