Author Rights

Authors who publish in BIG.D retain the copyright of their work.

By submitting and publishing an article in BIG.D, authors grant the journal the right of first publication and the non-exclusive right to publish, distribute, and archive the work as part of the journal.

Authors are free to:

  • Share their published articles for non-commercial purposes, in accordance with the journal’s license terms.

  • Deposit preprints, accepted manuscripts, and published versions of their articles in institutional repositories, subject repositories, personal websites, or other platforms of their choice, provided that proper citation to the original publication in BIG.D is given.

  • Reuse their own content in future works (such as books, reviews, or teaching materials), with appropriate acknowledgment of the original publication.

All articles published in BIG.D are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). This license allows non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

This policy ensures that authors retain ownership of their work while enabling wide dissemination under an open access publishing model.