JDSR is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her/their institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. More specifically, all new articles are published under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. This means you are free to:

• Share – Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format

• Adapt – remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

Under the following terms:

• Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

• ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

For full information, please consult the complete license.

Author copyright

Authors publishing with JDSR retain the unrestricted copyright to their submissions and can use their text in any way they see fit, including republishing it in different forms, such as online, in books, popular science articles or similar once it has been published in the journal. JDSR would appreciate if authors acknowledge the publication in JDSR when republishing their work, it is polite, but not required. By publishing in JDSR, the author gives JDSR an indefinite license to publish and make available the author’s submission in the journal and on the website under the applicable creative common license of the journal, as well as in the journal’s archiving system. The author also agrees to allow JDSR to use published articles for promoting the journal and the article.

Self-archiving policy

Authors are permitted to deposit all versions of their paper in an institutional or subject repository.

• Preprint

• Author’s Accepted Manuscript

• Published article (Version of Record)

No embargo is applied.