Copyright and Licensing

Journal of Language Education and Literacy (JLEL) is committed to protecting authors' rights while supporting the open dissemination and responsible reuse of scholarly knowledge.

Copyright

Authors retain copyright in their articles published in JLEL.

By publishing an article in JLEL, authors grant the Journal of Language Education and Literacy (JLEL) the right of first publication and authorize the journal to publish, reproduce, distribute, display, preserve, and make the article publicly available as part of the scholarly record.

Authors may disseminate and archive their published articles through institutional repositories, subject repositories, personal or institutional websites, scholarly networks, and other appropriate channels, subject to the terms of the Creative Commons license applicable to the individual article and any applicable third-party rights.

Licensing

Articles published by JLEL from August 2023 onward are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license, users are permitted to:

  • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format; and

  • Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material.

These permissions are granted under the following conditions:

  • Attribution (BY) — Appropriate credit must be given to the original author(s), a link to the license must be provided, and any changes made to the material must be indicated. Attribution must not suggest that the author(s), JLEL, or the publisher endorses the user or the use of the material.

  • NonCommercial (NC) — The material may not be used for commercial purposes.

  • ShareAlike (SA) — If the material is remixed, transformed, or built upon, the resulting material must be distributed under the same license as the original.

  • No Additional Restrictions — Users may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from exercising the rights granted by the license.

License History

JLEL has applied Creative Commons licensing to support open access and the responsible reuse of its published scholarly content.

Articles published before August 2023 were made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) license applicable to the article at the time of publication.

Beginning in August 2023, JLEL adopted the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) for newly published articles.

The license applicable to an individual article is the license identified on that article or its published Version of Record. Changes to the journal's licensing policy do not retroactively replace the license under which an article was originally published.

Author Rights and Self-Archiving

Authors retain copyright in their published work and, subject to the terms of the Creative Commons license applicable to their article and any applicable third-party rights, may:

  • Share the published Version of Record;

  • Deposit the published article in institutional or subject repositories;

  • Make the published article available through personal or institutional websites;

  • Use the article for teaching and other academic activities consistent with the applicable license;

  • Reuse the article, in whole or in part, in future scholarly works where appropriate and consistent with the applicable license and third-party rights; and

  • Disseminate the article through appropriate scholarly and academic networks.

Authors may self-archive the Version of Record immediately upon publication without an embargo period, subject to the license applicable to the article and any applicable third-party rights.

When redistributing or self-archiving the published article, authors should provide complete bibliographic information and the DOI or a link to the original publication in JLEL.

Third-Party Material

The Creative Commons license applicable to an article covers the content of that article except where specific material is identified as being subject to separate copyright or licensing terms.

Images, figures, tables, datasets, photographs, illustrations, or other third-party materials included in an article may be subject to separate copyright or licensing conditions. Material not covered by the article's Creative Commons license must be clearly identified through an appropriate credit line or copyright notice.

Authors are responsible for obtaining any permissions required for the inclusion, reproduction, adaptation, and publication of copyrighted third-party materials in their articles.

Author Responsibility

Authors are responsible for ensuring that their submitted work does not unlawfully infringe the copyright, intellectual property rights, privacy rights, or other legal rights of third parties.

Where copyrighted material is reproduced or adapted with permission, authors must provide appropriate acknowledgment and documentation of permission when requested by the Editorial Office.

License Information

Articles published by the Journal of Language Education and Literacy (JLEL) from August 2023 onward are licensed under the:

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

The license permits sharing and adaptation for non-commercial purposes, provided that appropriate attribution is given and adapted material is distributed under the same license.

The license applicable to articles published before August 2023 remains the license specified on the individual article or its Version of Record.

Full license terms for CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 are available from Creative Commons.