Licensing Policy

1. Licensing Terms

All published articles in the African Journal of Applied Sciences and Humanities (AJASH) are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, including commercial use, provided that proper credit is given to the original author and source.
The full license terms can be viewed at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

2. Author Rights and Responsibilities

2.1 Author Rights

Copyright of the published articles is retained by the journal. Authors are granted the right to share and self-archive their work under the journal's policies and the CC BY 4.0 license.

2.2 Author Responsibilities

- Authors must strictly comply with the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license.
- Authors are solely responsible for securing permissions for any third-party content used in their manuscripts.

3. User Rights and Responsibilities

3.1 User Rights

Users are freely permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles under the licensing terms.

3.2 User Responsibilities

- Users must give appropriate and clear credit to the author(s) and the journal.
- Users must not misrepresent the original work or use it in a misleading or unethical context.

4. Exceptions and Limitations

4.1 Third-Party Content

Some articles may include materials (e.g., figures, tables) that are not covered by the CC BY 4.0 license and may require separate permission from the original copyright holder for reuse.