Copyright and Licensing

Copyright Ownership

All articles published in the Global Journal of English Language and Literary Research (GJELR) remain the copyright of the author(s).

Authors retain full ownership of their work without transferring copyright to the journal.

By submitting and publishing with GJELR, authors grant the publisher a non-exclusive license to publish, archive, display, and distribute the article as part of the journal's scholarly content.

Licensing Terms (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

All published articles are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License.

This license allows users to:

Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
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Access published articles freely without restrictions.

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Non-Commercial — The material may not be used for commercial purposes.
No Derivatives — The published work may not be modified, adapted, or transformed.

Author Rights

Authors publishing in GJELR retain the right to:

Share the published article on personal websites, institutional repositories, or academic platforms.
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The published work is not altered or modified.
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Permissions and Reuse

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