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License Usage History
Our journal published issues dated June 30, 2021 (Volume: 7 Issue: 1) and December 31, 2023 (Volume: 9 Issue: 2) under the Creative Commons CC-BY license. Our journal began using the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license starting with Volume: 10 Issue: 1.