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The contents of the International Journal of Equine Science (IJES) are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
Authors who publish in IJES retain the copyright of their work without restrictions. By submitting a manuscript, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive license to publish the work and identify itself as the original publisher.
All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0). This license allows others to:
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As IJES is a gold open-access journal, authors are granted the right to publicly share their articles in accordance with the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license. We understand that many authors may wish to deposit different versions of their work in their preferred institutional or other repositories. In line with our journal repository policy, IJES allows the storage of the following versions without any embargo period, while acknowledging their initial publication in our journal.
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