The Journal of West African Languages is now a Free, Open-access, Online Journal. Open-access is, here, defined in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative's (BOAI). However, users are to ensure that credit is given to the original publication source. Authors have the copyright and control over the integrity of their work. They have the right to be properly acknowlegded and cited. From 2015, all issues of the journal will be published on this website, and will be immediately accessible to linguists the world over, without the need to register or subscribe. There are no author charges for publication in JWAL.
Copyright of all publication on JWAL
As indicated above, authors are the sole copyright holders of their publications. All contents in the Journal of West African Languages, since 2015, are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.
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