Copyright and Licensing Policy

Copyright

Authors who publish in SSI keep the copyright in their work. You do not transfer copyright to the journal or the publisher. Instead, you grant SSI a non-exclusive licence to publish, distribute and archive the article in its published form.

Licence

Every SSI article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). It allows unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are properly credited.

Under this licence, authors and anyone else may:

• Read, download and share the article free of charge
• Copy, distribute and transmit it in any medium or format
• Adapt, remix, transform and build on it for any purpose, including commercial purposes
• Reuse figures, tables and text in new work, with proper citation

Authors' Rights

The licence does not limit the authors' right to:

• Post the published article on personal websites, in institutional repositories or on preprint servers, with a link to the published version
• Make separate, non-exclusive arrangements to distribute the published version, as long as its first publication in SSI is acknowledged

Third-Party Material

If your manuscript includes material you did not create, such as figures, tables or long quotations, and it is not already under a compatible open licence, you are responsible for obtaining permission to reuse it. Always give proper attribution.

No Copyright Transfer Agreement

SSI does not ask authors to sign a copyright transfer agreement. By submitting a manuscript and having it accepted, you agree to publish it under CC BY 4.0 as described above.