Licensing and Copyright

The journal is published by Canadian Academy for Science (CASI Inc) and Innovation and follows an open access publishing model. All articles are made freely available online immediately upon publication, without subscription barriers or access restrictions.
 
Copyright
Copyright of each published article remains with the author(s), unless otherwise stated in the publication agreement or in the article metadata. By submitting to this journal, authors confirm that their manuscript is original, has not been published previously, and is not under consideration elsewhere, except where clearly disclosed to the Editorial Office.
 
License
All published articles in this journal are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This license permits others to read, copy, distribute, adapt, remix, transform, and build upon the work, including for commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and the source, and that any changes are indicated.
 
Author Rights
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• Use their work in future books, lectures, theses, and research projects.
• Deposit the published version or accepted manuscript in institutional or subject repositories.
• Share the article on personal websites, academic networks, and other non-exclusive platforms.
• Reuse parts of the article in future works, with proper acknowledgment of the original publication.
 
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Third-Party Material
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Article License Statement
Each published article will include the following license statement:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
 
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