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Since mid-February of 2023, the authors retain the copyright relating to their article and grant the journal RAC, from ANPAD, the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0), as stated in the article’s PDF document. This license provides that the article published can be shared (allows you to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapted (allows you to remix, transform, and create from the material for any purpose, even commercial) by anyone.

After article acceptance, the authors must sign a Term of Authorization for Publication, which is sent to the authors by e-mail for electronic signature before publication.

 

Open Access and Publication on Repositories Policies

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. There is no embargo on the journal’s publications. Submission and acceptance dates are made available in PDF format for each paper.

This journal grants third parties the right to use, reproduce and share the article according to the Creative Commons license agreement (CC-BY 4.0). 

Authors are encouraged to publish their data in recommended repositories. For a list of generic and subject-specific repositories that meet our peer review criteria, see here.

Authors are allowed and encouraged to distribute their published articles online (for example, in institutional or academic repositories or on personal pages). Therefore, authors are permitted to deposit all versions of their paper (Preprint, Author's Accepted Manuscript, Published article (Version of Record)) in an institutional, subject, or personal repository. An embargo is not applied.