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License and Copyright Policy

Journal of Quality Assurance and Higher Education Governance (JQAHEG)

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0): All articles published in JQAHEG are distributed under the terms of this open access license. Research is freely and immediately available worldwide without financial, legal, or technical barriers.

1. Copyright

Authors who publish with JQAHEG retain the copyright of their work without restriction and grant the journal the right of first publication. No transfer of copyright to the journal or the publisher is required at any stage of submission, review, or publication.

Authors also retain their publishing rights without restriction, subject only to the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license described in Section 2 below.

2. License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)

JQAHEG has adopted the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) as the sole license for all published content. CC BY is the most permissive Creative Commons license and is regarded as the optimal license for the publication, distribution, use, and reuse of scholarly work.

Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Copyright & First Publication: Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under CC BY 4.0, permitting others to share and adapt the work with appropriate acknowledgment.
  2. Separate Agreements: Authors may enter into separate, additional, non-exclusive contractual arrangements for distribution of the journal's published version (e.g., depositing in institutional repositories or book publication), provided initial publication in JQAHEG is acknowledged.
  3. Online Posting: Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., institutional repositories, personal websites, academic social networks) prior to and during submission for wider citation and scholarly exchange.

3. What Readers and Institutions May Do

Under CC BY 4.0, any reader — including individual researchers, libraries, universities, quality assurance agencies, and other institutions — may, without seeking separate permission from the author or the journal:

Share Copy and redistribute the article, in whole or in part, in any medium or format.   Adapt Remix, transform, translate, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercial use.   Reuse Incorporate work into course packs, training materials, repositories, and QA documentation.
Condition of Use: Users must give appropriate credit to the author(s) and to JQAHEG as the journal of first publication, provide a link to the CC BY 4.0 license, and indicate if changes were made without implying endorsement.

4. Author Self-Archiving

Consistent with the rights retained under Sections 1 and 2, authors may:

  • Deposit submitted, accepted, or published versions of their manuscript in institutional or subject repositories (e.g., university repositories, SINTA, Garuda, preprint servers) at any stage.
  • Post the work on a personal or academic networking website.
  • Include the work in a thesis, dissertation, or edited volume.

5. Open Access Commitment

In developing its policy, JQAHEG recognizes that free access is better than priced access, libre access is better than free access alone, and libre access under CC BY or an equivalent license is better than libre access under more restrictive open licenses.

The journal aims to achieve what it can, when it can: it will not delay achieving free access in order to achieve libre access, and it will not stop at free access when libre access is within reach.