Journal Policy

Open Access Policy

Social Agriculture, Food System, and Environmental Sustainability (SAFSES) promote the dissemination of high-quality research by providing immediate open access to its content. SAFSES is fully committed to the principle that making research freely available for the public will enhance the greater exchange of knowledge and discussion toward relevant issues we are facing. The open access of the journal means its free availability on the public internet, permitting any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself as long as the original author is acknowledged as stated in CC BY license from Creative Commons.

Copyright Statement

The copyright remains with you: open-access articles in SAFSES are published under the liberal Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 international (CC BY) license. You are free to share and redistribute the material in any medium or format.

However, the following rights are reserved by the author(s)/copyright holder(s) :

  1. All proprietary rights other than copyright, such as patent rights.
  2. The right to use and to make limited distribution of all or part of this article, provided the copies are not offered for sale.
  3. The right to use the substance of the article in future own works, including lectures and books.
  4. The right to self-archive the article.
  5. In the case of a “work made for hire,” the right of the employer to make copies of the articles for their own use, but not for resale. Permission for third parties to republish all or part of the SAFSES articles, or translations thereof, must be obtained from SAFSES. Such Permission will normally be given free of charge, provided the source of the material is suitably acknowledged.

Author’s Warranties

The author(s) warrants that the article is original, has not been published before, is written by the stated author(s),  does not infringe on the rights of others, and contains no unlawful statements. If the article contains copyrighted work, the author(s) will obtain written permission from the copyright owners and show credit to the sources in the article to be signed by at least one of the authors who agrees to inform the others, if any, or in the case of a “work made for hire,” by the employer.

Co-Authorship

If the article was prepared jointly with other authors, the signatory of this form warrants that he/she has been authorized by all co-authors to sign this agreement on their behalf, and agrees to inform his/her co-authors of the terms of this agreement.

Termination

The author or SAFSES can terminate this agreement upon two months’ notice where the other party has materially breached this agreement and failed to remedy such breach within a month of being given the terminating party’s notice requesting such breach to be remedied. No breach or violation of this agreement will cause this agreement or any license granted in it to terminate automatically or affect the definition of SAFSES.

Royalties

This agreement entitles the author to no royalties or other fees. To such extent as legally permissible, the author waives his or her right to collect royalties relative to the article in respect of any use of the article by SAFSES or its sublicensee.

Miscellaneous

SAFSES will publish the article (or have it published) in the Journal when the editorial process is successfully completed and SAFSES or its sublicensee has become obligated to publish the article. SAFSES may conform the article to a style of punctuation, spelling, capitalization, and usage that it deems appropriate. The author acknowledges that the article may be published so that it will be publicly accessible, and such access will be free of charge for the readers. SAFSES will be allowed to sublicense the rights licensed to it under this agreement.

Misconduct Reporting

All publication processes by SAFSES are subject to public review against any misconduct and unethical behavior, such as double manuscript submission, data fabrication, fake article review, etc. Please do not hesitate to get in touch with our admin should there be any misconduct discovered.