Copyright Policy

An author who publishes in L2CT Journal (Language, Literature, Culture, and Technology) agrees to the following terms:

  1. Author Rights

    • The author retains the copyright of the published work.

    • The author grants L2CT Journal the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0) that allows others to share and adapt the work with proper acknowledgment of authorship and initial publication in this journal.

  2. Non-Exclusive Distribution

    • Authors may enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for non-exclusive distribution of the published version of the work (e.g., posting to an institutional repository or publishing in a book), provided that the original publication in L2CT Journal is acknowledged.

  3. Preprints and Early Sharing

    • Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories, preprint servers, or personal websites) prior to and during the submission process. Such practices can lead to productive scholarly exchanges as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

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