Copyright Statements
The Synergy: Journal of Outcome-Based Community Engagement is deeply committed to the principles of open knowledge. We believe that authors should maintain control over their intellectual property while ensuring their outcome-based community service models can be widely accessed and applied.
1. Copyright Retention Without Restrictions
Authors who publish with The Synergy agree to the following terms regarding intellectual property:
- Authors retain the copyright of their manuscript completely and without any restrictions.
- Authors grant the journal the right of first publication.
- The journal does not require authors to transfer their copyright to the publisher. The publisher simply acts as the disseminator of the scholarly work.
2. Licensing Policy (CC BY-SA 4.0)
In alignment with open-access principles, all articles published in this journal are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This means that anyone (including the authors) is legally free to:
- Copy, distribute, and transmit the work.
- Adapt and build upon the material (even for commercial purposes).
- Condition: Appropriate credit must be given to the original authors and The Synergy journal, and any derivative works must be distributed under the exact same CC BY-SA license.
