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Research Integrity

Peer Review

All articles submitted to the journal will be thoroughly peer reviewed by external reviewers. All journals are required to adhere to the COPE guidelines for best practice. Publications of a book reviews and editorials will not be sent for external peer review but will include editorial review and revisions.

 
 

Anti-plagiarism Checking

All journal articles are automatically screened for plagiarism by the Similarity Check system from Crossref. This system compares incoming submissions to a large database of academic content, and alerts editors to any possible issues. 

 
 

Open Licenses

All journal content is released under open licenses from Creative Commons.

 
 

Indexing & Archiving

All journal content is assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI). All metadata is openly available for harvesting by indexing services via OAI-PMH and journals are registered with Open Archives.

Our content is LOCKSS enabled, which provides for preservation of scholarly work. We fully support and encourage author self-archiving of all content (sometimes termed ''green'' open access). The CCHRR is also digitally archived in the National Library of the Netherlands.

 
 

Permissions

Publications in the Cross-cultural Human Rights Review may be downloaded, reused, reprinted, modified, distributed and/or copied as long as the original authors and source are cited. No permission is required from the authors or the publishers. Appropriate attribution can be provided by simply citing the original article, in this format: identify the Author; Cross-cultural Human Rights Review (CCHRR); the volume; the number of the first page; and the year of the Work’s publication in the Review; and the ISSN of the Review.  For more information on licensing please visit our Licensing section. If you would like more information on permissions, please email us at: CCHRR.frt@vu.nl.

 
 

Website Images

This website contains several free of commercial use images and materials. Every effort has been made to trace rights holders, but if any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers would be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.