Open Access & Licensing
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- All authors have made substantial contributions to this manuscript and have given final approval for this version to be submitted.
- The manuscript, including related data, figures and tables, has not been published previously and that the manuscript is not under consideration elsewhere. This does not include publishing in an abstract or conference proceedings, or as part of a published thesis.
- They agree to the following open access policy, and licensing and copyright agreements.
The following open access policy, and licensing and copyright agreement are valid for any article published by the Clean Air Journal.
Open Access Policy
The Clean Air Journal is an Open Access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author as detailed in the Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International License.
The journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Licensing and copyright agreement
The copyright of any Clean Air Journal article is retained by the author(s). The authors do grant Clean Air Journal and the National Association of Clean Air to public the article, and to identify themselves as the original publisher. Articles published in Clean Air Journal by the National Association for Clean Air, South Africa is licensed under a Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International License
Under the Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International License, anyone is free to
Share - copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
Adapt - remix, transform, and build upon the material
for any purpose, even commercially under the following conditions as stated as part of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Attribution - The author(s) must be given credit for the work. This includes referencing the article, providing a link to the license, and indicating if changes were made. When giving credit to the authors, you may not suggests that the licensor endorses you or your use.
No additional restrictions - You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
Additional information on the license can be found online.