Copyright Statements

Authors who publish their manuscripts in RIAM: Journal of English, Multilingualism, and Communication agree to the following copyright and licensing terms. This policy ensures the wide dissemination of scholarly research in language and communication while protecting the intellectual property rights of the creators.

1 Copyright Ownership

Authors retain full copyright ownership of their work published in RIAM without any restrictions. The journal does not request a transfer of copyright ownership. Upon acceptance, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive license to publish, archive, and digitally distribute the manuscript as the original publisher of first publication.

2 Licensing Terms (CC BY 4.0)

All articles are published under the creative commons framework. The manuscript will be simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This dynamic allows:

  • The public to freely share, download, read, print, and reuse the work, provided that the original authors and RIAM are properly credited.
  • Authors to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book chapter), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.

3 Author Warranties

By submitting a manuscript to RIAM, the authors warrant and guarantee that:

  • The work is entirely original and does not infringe upon any existing third-party copyrights or intellectual properties.
  • The manuscript has not been previously published elsewhere and is not currently under consideration by any other scientific journal.
  • All co-authors have actively participated in the research and have given their full approval to the content and structure of the submitted version.