This agreement sets out the terms on which the Crossroads International Journal for Multidisciplinary Research (CIJFMR), published by LawFoyer (the "Publisher"), publishes an accepted article. After acceptance, the corresponding author accepts it online on behalf of all authors through the private link in the acceptance email, by typing their full name as an electronic signature. The date and time of acceptance are recorded. Authors whose institution requires a signed document may also upload a signed copy.

1. Copyright

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1.2 Where the authors' employer or funder owns the copyright, the corresponding author confirms that the owner has authorised this agreement.

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2.3 The Publisher may make the article available in any format needed for long-term preservation and discovery, and may correct, mark or retract the published version in accordance with the Corrections, retractions and expressions of concern policy.

3. Open access licence for readers

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3.3 Commercial reuse of the article requires the permission of the copyright holders.

4. Rights the authors keep

With full citation of the original publication in CIJFMR, the authors may, without further permission:

  • deposit the published version in an institutional or subject repository, on a personal website or on an academic networking site;
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  • reuse the article, in whole or in part, in a later book, thesis or edited work of which they are author or editor;
  • present the work at conferences and seminars, and share it with colleagues and students.

5. Authors' warranties

The corresponding author warrants, on behalf of all authors, that:

  1. the article is the original work of the listed authors and has not been published elsewhere, except as disclosed to the Journal;
  2. every listed author meets the Journal's authorship criteria and has approved the final version;
  3. the article does not infringe any copyright, trade mark, right of privacy or other right of any person, and permission has been obtained for all third-party material it reproduces;
  4. the article contains nothing defamatory, obscene, unlawful or in contempt of any court, and does not disclose confidential information without lawful authority;
  5. any research involving human participants received the ethics approval and informed consent stated in the article;
  6. all conflicts of interest, sources of funding and uses of AI tools have been disclosed; and
  7. all statements of fact are, to the best of the authors' knowledge, true, and all references are accurate.

6. Responsibility for content

6.1 The views expressed in the article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Journal, its editors or the Publisher.

6.2 The authors are responsible for any claim arising from a breach of the warranties in Section 5, and agree to indemnify the Publisher against loss arising from such a breach.

7. Processing charge

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8. Governing law

This agreement is governed by the laws of India. The courts having jurisdiction over the Publisher's registered office in India have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising from it.

Declaration

By accepting this agreement online, the corresponding author confirms that they are authorised to accept it on behalf of all authors, that all authors have read and accepted its terms, and that the warranties above are true.