Copyright and Licensing

Management Science Advances (MSA) supports the dissemination and reuse of scholarly research in order to maximize its accessibility, visibility, and impact. The journal publishes its articles under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

Copyright in articles published in MSA remains with the author(s). Authors grant the journal the right of first publication and agree to have their work published under the CC BY 4.0 license. Copyright is not transferred to the editors, the journal, or Scientific Oasis (SCIO), as the publisher.

Under the CC BY 4.0 license, anyone may:

copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, including commercially;
remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercially;
translate or otherwise adapt published material;
use published material for text and data mining; and
reuse figures, tables, extracts, and other material covered by the license.

These permissions are granted provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and source, a link to the CC BY 4.0 license is provided, and any changes made to the original material are clearly indicated. Attribution must not suggest that the original author(s), MSA, or the publisher endorse the user or the particular reuse of the material.

Authors retain the right to reuse, distribute, archive, and otherwise make lawful use of their work in accordance with the CC BY 4.0 license. Detailed provisions concerning manuscript deposition and repository use are provided in the journal's Self-Archiving Policy.

Third-Party Material

The CC BY 4.0 license applies to the article and to material for which the author(s) hold the necessary rights, unless otherwise indicated. Third-party material included in an article may be subject to separate copyright or licensing conditions.

Where a figure, table, photograph, illustration, diagram, or other third-party material is not covered by the article's CC BY 4.0 license, this should be indicated in the relevant caption, credit line, or other appropriate notice. Users are responsible for obtaining permission from the relevant copyright holder where their intended reuse is not permitted by the applicable license or by law.

Use of Third-Party Copyrighted Material

Authors are responsible for ensuring that they have the necessary rights to include third-party material in manuscripts submitted to MSA. Permission may be required for published material, including figures, schemes, tables, photographs, illustrations, or extracts of text, where the material is protected by copyright and the intended use is not permitted by an applicable license, public-domain status, or a relevant exception or limitation under applicable copyright law.

Permission may be required for:

the authors' own works previously published by another publisher where the authors did not retain the rights necessary for the intended reuse;
substantial extracts from another person's copyrighted work or collection of works where the intended reuse is not otherwise permitted;
tables, graphs, charts, schemes, illustrations, and other visual materials reproduced in their original form or with only minor modifications where the applicable license or a relevant legal exception does not permit such reuse; and
photographs, images, or other materials for which the authors do not hold the necessary rights and whose reuse is not otherwise permitted.

Permission is generally not required where:

authors create their own table, graph, or other presentation based on underlying data that may lawfully be reused, provided that the source of the data is appropriately acknowledged and cited;
short quotations are used in accordance with applicable copyright law or another relevant legal exception or limitation, provided that the original source is appropriately cited;
graphs, charts, schemes, illustrations, or other materials are created independently by the authors using underlying data or information that may lawfully be reused, provided that the new material does not reproduce protected elements of the original work and the original source is appropriately acknowledged and cited; and
the material is in the public domain or is available under a license that permits the intended reuse, provided that all applicable license conditions are satisfied.

Redrawing, adapting, or modifying copyrighted material does not automatically remove applicable copyright restrictions. Where the resulting material remains substantially derived from a protected work, permission may still be required unless the intended reuse is otherwise permitted by the applicable license or by law.

Obtaining Permission

To avoid delays during the editorial and publication process, authors should identify potential copyright issues and obtain any necessary permissions as early as possible. Where there is uncertainty regarding copyright ownership, licensing conditions, or whether the intended reuse is permitted, authors should consult the relevant copyright holder or obtain appropriate permission before submission of the final version.

MSA cannot publish third-party material where the necessary rights or permissions have not been established. Authors are responsible for providing evidence of permission when requested by the Editorial Office.

Where permission is required, authors must comply with any acknowledgement or credit-line requirements specified by the copyright holder. If no specific wording is required, an appropriate acknowledgement should be provided in the relevant figure, table, scheme, or other material, clearly identifying the original author or creator, source, copyright holder or publisher, and year of publication, as applicable.

Relationship with Other Journal Policies

Requirements concerning the reuse of previously published scholarly material, duplicate or redundant publication, and related publication-integrity issues are addressed in the journal's Publication Integrity policy.

Requirements concerning plagiarism and inappropriate unattributed reuse are provided in the journal's Plagiarism Policy.

Requirements concerning the sharing and repository deposition of submitted, accepted, and published versions of articles are provided in the journal's Self-Archiving Policy.