Licensing Policy

Licence Applied to Articles

All scholarly articles published by the Dyal Singh Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (DSJHSS) are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0), unless a clearly identified item contains third-party material subject to separate terms.

What CC BY 4.0 Permits

Under CC BY 4.0, users may share and adapt the published work for lawful purposes, including research, teaching, translation, republication, computational analysis and other forms of reuse, provided that appropriate attribution is given.

Appropriate attribution should identify, as reasonably practicable:

·        the author or authors;

·        the title of the article;

·        Dyal Singh Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences;

·        the original publication details and source; and

·        the CC BY 4.0 licence.

Users should also indicate whether changes were made when required by the licence.

Author Copyright

Application of the CC BY 4.0 licence does not transfer copyright ownership to the journal. Copyright remains with the author or authors, subject to any rights in third-party material.

Third-Party Material

Authors are responsible for identifying material that they do not own, including images, figures, extended quotations, datasets or other copyrighted content, and for obtaining permission where required.

If third-party material is excluded from the article's CC BY 4.0 licence, the article should identify the separate copyright or reuse conditions for that material. Users wishing to reuse excluded material are responsible for obtaining permission from the relevant rights holder.

Licence Display

The journal should display the CC BY 4.0 licence clearly on article landing pages and, where technically practicable, within the full-text PDF or other published version.

No Contradictory Restrictions

DSJHSS will not apply an "all rights reserved" statement to material that the journal publishes under CC BY 4.0. Copyright, licensing and open-access statements should be interpreted consistently.

Website Content

The licence applied to individual journal articles does not automatically apply to every element of the journal website, including logos, trademarks, website design or third-party content, unless expressly stated.