Authors publishing in Alicante Journal of English Studies / Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses agree to the following terms:

1 Copyright

Authors retain unrestricted copyright for their articles, but grant the journal non-exclusive exploitation rights (reproduction, distribution, public communication and transformation) and the right of first publication. Authors are free to enter into additional agreements for non-exclusive distribution of the version published in this journal, as long as the fact that the manuscripts were first published in this journal is acknowledged.

© The authors.

2 Licence

Works are published in this journal under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence, the terms and conditions of which are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

You are free to:

• Share: copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
• Adapt: remix, transform, and build upon the material.

Under the following terms:

• Attribution: you must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
• NonCommercial: you may not use the material for commercial purposes.
• ShareAlike: if you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same licence as the original.

No additional restrictions. You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the licence permits.

3 Self-archiving policy

Authors are encouraged to disseminate their work online in order to promote faster circulation and dissemination of their work and possibly get more citations and achieve higher impact within the scientific and academic community, under the following conditions:

Authors are not allowed to upload preprint or postprint versions (respectively, versions before and after peer-review and acceptance for publication) of their work to an institutional or thematic repository, their own website, etc. prior to publication, only the final published article (publisher's version).

Alicante Journal of English Studies / Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses deposits the works in the Repository of the University of Alicante (RUA) and registers the archiving, open access and copyright policies in Sherpa Romeo.