License

All articles published in the Journal of Ancient Chinese Arts and Crafts (JACAC) are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

License Terms

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Policy Flexibility for Funder Mandates

Already-published articles will retain their original CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license in perpetuity. However, if prospective authors are bound by strict mandates from their research funding agencies for future submissions, they may submit a request to the Editorial Office to publish under the CC BY license instead.

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Default Articles: For articles published under the standard policy, the header or footer of the individual article PDF must accurately state: “© The Author(s). Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0”.
Exceptional Articles: For the limited exceptions approved by the Editorial Office for publication under CC BY, the corresponding text in the PDF must be precisely adjusted to read: * “© The Author(s). Licensed under CC BY 4.0”.
Principle of Consistency: All article-level metadata on the journal website and text indicators within the PDF must correspond perfectly with the actual license granted to that specific work.

Copyright

Copyright for each article published in JACAC is retained by its author(s). By submitting a manuscript, authors grant Michelangelo Scholar Publishing Limited (MSPL) the right to publish the work under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license (or CC BY if specifically approved).