Copyright & Licensing

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Time Travels does not require a transfer of copyright. Authors grant us the limited licence needed to publish, preserve and distribute their work openly.

Last updated · August 2026

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Copyright ownership

Authors retain full copyright in their published work. Publishing with Time Travels grants us a non-exclusive, irrevocable licence to host, display, format, archive and distribute the work, and to generate PDFs and Certificates of Publication from it.

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Reader licence

Unless an author specifies otherwise, published research is made available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). You may read, download, copy, distribute, adapt and build upon the work, including commercially, provided you give appropriate credit and indicate any changes.

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Third-party material

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for any third-party figures, tables, photographs, datasets or extended quotations included in a manuscript, and for acknowledging the source in the caption or reference list.

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How to cite

Use the Publication ID assigned at approval so the record remains resolvable:

Author, A. (Year). Title of the paper. Time Travels. Publication ID: TTH-YYYY-NNNN.

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Editorial demonstration publications

Publications credited to the Time Travels Editorial Team or Research Office are produced by the platform to demonstrate its structure and identifiers. They are copyright Time Travels and are clearly labelled as editorial demonstration publications wherever they appear.

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Reporting infringement

If you believe material on the platform infringes your copyright, write to editors@timetravelshub.org with the Publication ID, a description of the protected work, and a statement of your rights. We investigate promptly and may withdraw material pending resolution.