At the acceptance of any article by WJSS, the author (s) represented by the corresponding author will be required to complete a copyright agreement form indicating that no academic misconduct has been committed, and also that the permission of the publisher will be sought before the resale or distribution of an article or other derived works. If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the author (s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article.

WJSS will treat all copyright cases against its authors seriously using available legal means. This is to protect and defend the intellectual properties of its authors from infringement and fraud. Also, the journal will not fail to immediately retract any article from its database even after publication if the article is found to have breached any form of academic misconduct bordering on copyright issues or plagiarism. On this note, authors are to immediately inform the editorial office of WJSS if any notice any form of fraud against their intellectual property published in this article.

Copyright Agreements

On submission of an article to WJSS authors are undertaking the following copyright agreement;

• They have copyright but grant broad publishing and distribution rights to the publisher including publishing the article on WJSS online platforms.
• The author chooses an end-user license under which readers can use and share the article.
• WJSS makes the article available online with the author’s choice of end-user license