Copyright and Permission

JARDET is an open-access publication. The Publisher applies Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license to all published manuscripts.  Prior to publication, authors provide a formal written Consent to Publish and Transfer of Copyright form. The signed Consent ensures that the University of Southern Mindanao ("the Publisher") has the Author's permission to publish the relevant Contribution. The signed Transfer entitles the Publisher on behalf of the Author to protect the Contribution against unauthorized use, and to authorize the Publisher to disseminate the Contribution by means of archiving in the JARDET website database, offprints, legitimate photocopies, microform editions, reprints, translations, and secondary information sources such as abstracting and indexing services including databases. 

The author warrants that the article is an original work not published elsewhere in whole or in part, except in abstract form, and that the author has full power to make this grant.

Policies on Data Sharing and Reproducibility

If the article has accompanying supplementary file/s, a subsection ‘Supplementary Information’ is added after the Conclusion, specifying the link where the data is available. This is a section of the manuscript where interested readers go to locate the data, whether to verify those claims written in the manuscript or to utilize the data for further research.

Authors are allowed to disseminate their work after publication, but they must acknowledge that it was initially published in JARDET.

Journal’s Policy on Intellectual Property

JARDET requires authors to make their article open access under the CC BY-NC-ND license in order to meet the terms of open access publication and ensure the widest possible dissemination. JARDET authors are required to sign the Consent to Publish and Transfer of Copyright form prior to publication of their work.