Copyright & Author Rights

Finance, Accounting and Business Analysis (FABA) is an open access journal committed to protecting author rights while ensuring broad dissemination of published research.

This policy operates in conjunction with:

• Open Access Statement
• Publication Ethics & Malpractice Statement
• Licensing Policy
• Data Availability Policy

  1. Copyright Ownership

Authors retain copyright of their published work.

By submitting and publishing in FABA, authors grant the Publisher a non-exclusive license to:

• publish and distribute the article;
• identify itself as the original publisher;
• archive and index the article in databases and repositories.

Copyright remains with the authors.

  1. Licensing Terms

All published articles are distributed under a Creative Commons license (specify applicable license, e.g.):

Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Under this license, users are permitted 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);

provided appropriate credit is given to the original authors and source.

Authors must ensure that third-party materials included in the manuscript are appropriately licensed or permission has been obtained.

  1. Author Rights

Authors retain the right to:

• reuse their work in future publications;
• deposit the published version in institutional or subject repositories;
• share the final published PDF;
• use the article for teaching and academic purposes.

No embargo period applies.

  1. Publisher Rights

The Publisher retains the right to:

• disseminate the article globally;
• preserve the version of record;
• include the article in indexing and archiving services.

The Publisher does not claim exclusive ownership.

  1. Third-Party Content

Authors are responsible for securing permission to reproduce:

• copyrighted images;
• tables;
• figures;
• extended quotations.

Proof of permission may be requested.

  1. Moral Rights

Author moral rights, including the right to attribution and protection against misrepresentation, are preserved.

  1. Archiving and Preservation

Published articles are permanently archived through recognized digital preservation systems (e.g., LOCKSS, institutional archiving, repository indexing where applicable).

  1. No Transfer of Copyright

FABA does not require authors to transfer copyright ownership. Instead, publication operates under a licensing model consistent with open access principles.