Licensing and Copyright Policy and Author Self Archiving Policy

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Copyright policy

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Author Self-Archiving Policy

Authors are permitted to self-archive the following versions of their manuscripts in any Open Archives Initiative (OAI)-compliant repository, personal website, or institutional repository:

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