CORE Publications are follow open access policy, governed by Creative Commons Licensing.
Articles published in the open access publications are governed by the Creative Commons licensing policy, (attributed, or CC-BY). This will allow users to get free access to the published information. The user is allowed to copy, circulate, download, share and use research provided the author is correctly attributed. The publisher adds the Creative Commons Licenses to the article once it is accepted for publication. However, the author retains the copyright and shall be able to use the final published version of the article in any way, including adding the full text to CentAUR.
Author signs a licensing agreement with the publisher that allows the publisher to circulate it free of cost to all the end users in the digital platforms, online under the open access publication model. Author may share the published article to any third party. The third party may use it under the relevant user license (together with Personal Use rights) so long as it contains a CrossMark logo, the end user license, and a DOI link to the version of record on CORE publications. In all these cases, the author retains the patent, and other intellectual property rights (including research data) and the publisher retains the trademark of the journal. Proper attribution and credit should be given to both the published work and the publisher.
LICENSING
Creative Commons is a licensing scheme which allows authors to license their work so that user may re-use it without contacting the author for permission. However, user should acknowledge the author and the source of its publication thoroughly. This is applicable to the articles published under the open access model only.