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All articles published by DCE are made immediately available worldwide under an open access license. This means:

• everyone has free and unlimited access to the full-text of all articles published by DCE;

• everyone is free to re-use the published material provided proper accreditation/citation of the original publication is given;

• authors are not charged for publication of any materials

• We allow the authors to retain full copyright of their articles

Researchers, students, and interested people from anywhere in the world have rapid and open access to the latest research through DCE publications, entirely free of charge. All DCE content is distributed under a Creative Commons open access license. This means the papers are digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Our proviso here is that you correctly cite, attribute, and source research taken from the papers published here as a sign of respect to our authors.

You will notice that all our papers contain the following symbol in the top right corner:

This means that the work is produced under a Creative Commons open access license.

BY indicates that you must attribute the source of the work. You can fulfill this requirement by citing the source, and are free to copy, distribute, display, perform, and otherwise remix the work if you credit the author of the work. 

NC limits the rights for use of this work to non-commercial use, which means that you are not allowed to make money from the work. You can copy, distribute, display, and perform this work but for non-commercial purposes only.

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