Copyright
Culture Unbound is an Open Access journal, indicating that all its content is freely available to anyone with an internet connection. Furthermore we publish all our articles under a Creative Commons license that specify what a user can do with a document. Creative Commons licenses are not an alternative to copyright. They work alongside copyright and enable you to modify your copyright terms to best suit your needs. Since 2021 Culture Unbound uses a so called Attribution (CC BY) license which allows users to distribute the work and to re-work it without the author's permission, but never without acknowledging the original author. Other licences may be valid for older articles and are shown on each article page. Culture Unbound does not charge any publication fees from the authors. Authors are welcome to parallel publish their articles without embargo as long as they include a full reference to the original source.
Copyright for all manuscripts rests with the author(s). The editors reserve the right to edit manuscripts. Contributors are responsible for acquiring all permissions from the copyright owners for the use of quotations, illustrations, tables, etc. Each author must, before final publication fill, in a publishing agreement provided by LiU E-Press.
It is allowed to publish journal articles for self-archiving on institutional repositories, social media and other sites. We encourage you to use the published version even it is allowed to use the post-print version.
A cover letter for each submitted manuscript should confirm that all authors have agreed to the submission according to the conditions of Culture Unbound. The author/s should state if the manuscript has been previously published elsewhere or if it has been submitted to another publisher. While being processed by Culture Unbound, the manuscript should not be submitted to another publisher without informing the Culture Unbound editor. The author guarantees that no other publisher has copyright demands that prevent publishing in Culture Unbound.
