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International Journal of Language and Translation Studies do not ask the authors of the manuscripts published since 2023 to transfer their copyrights to our journal. Authors (or their employers) retain the copyright. The journal accepts the publication under the CC BY-NC license requested from the authors. All manuscripts published by International Journal of Language and Translation Studies (regardless of who funds the research) are published as open access and reuse is permitted in accordance with the terms of the CC BY-NC open access license.

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Open Access is when publications are freely available to anyone online with few restrictions on reuse. The unrestricted share of research is especially important to authors, readers and funders. For this reason, our journal's open access policy is as follows:
1. The author(s) retains the copyright of the manuscript and gives the first publication right to the journal.
2. Articles in International Journal of Language and Translation Studies are published as open access under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.
3. International Journal of Language and Translation Studies believes that for open access to work effectively, user rights and copyright ownership must be accessible through licensing.
4. Authors can send the published version of their article to an institutional archive or library by referring to the journal in which the article was published. However, for commercial users or commercial use, permission must be obtained from the Authors.
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