Copyright &amp; License

Authors who publish their manuscripts in OSTINATO Journal agree to the following terms:

Author Copyright

Authors retain copyright of their work and grant the journal the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). This license allows others to share and adapt the work provided that appropriate credit is given to the author(s) and the work’s initial publication in this journal is acknowledged.

License

All published articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). Under this license, users are permitted to:

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

Adapt - remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercial use;

Provided that appropriate attribution is given to the original author(s), a link to the license is provided, and any changes made are clearly indicated. There are no restrictions on reuse beyond those stipulated by the license. The license ensures maximum dissemination, visibility, and impact of the published research while maintaining proper acknowledgment of authorship.

Additional Distribution

Authors are permitted to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal’s published version of the work (e.g., posting it to an institutional repository or publishing it in a book), with acknowledgment of its initial publication in OSTINATO Journal.

Preprint Sharing

Authors are allowed and encouraged to post their preprints online before and during the submission process, as this can foster productive scholarly exchange and lead to earlier citations of the published work.