Rights

Copyright & licensing policy

Authors who publish with Lumora keep the copyright in their work. This page explains exactly which rights authors retain, which licence readers receive, what Lumora is permitted to do as publisher, and how third-party material is handled.

In one sentence: authors retain copyright; articles are published under the CC BY 4.0 licence; and Lumora receives a licence to publish and to identify itself as the original publisher — nothing more.

Authors retain copyright

Copyright in every article published by Lumora remains with its authors. Lumora does not require copyright transfer, exclusive assignment, or any surrender of authors' ownership as a condition of publication. Because they retain copyright, authors may — without asking Lumora's permission:

Reuse their own figures, tables, and text in future works, theses, books, and teaching materials, with citation of the version of record.
Deposit any version of the article (submitted, accepted, or published) in any repository, immediately and without embargo — see our Archiving & Preservation Policy.
Distribute the article to colleagues, at conferences, and on scholarly networks and personal websites.
Enter into separate, additional arrangements for distribution of the published version, provided the original publication in a Lumora journal is acknowledged.

The licence authors grant Lumora

On acceptance, authors grant Lumora a licence to:

Publish, reproduce, and distribute the article as the version of record in the journal, in all formats and media.
Identify itself as the original publisher of the article.
Register persistent identifiers (Crossref DOIs), deposit metadata with indexing services, and preserve the article for the long term.
Enforce, on the authors' behalf if requested, the attribution terms of the Creative Commons licence against misuse such as plagiarism of the published version.

This licence is what allows Lumora to publish and maintain the scholarly record. It does not diminish the authors' ownership of their work.

Reader licence — CC BY 4.0

All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). Readers may copy, redistribute, adapt, translate, and build upon any Lumora article for any purpose, including commercial use, provided they:

Give appropriate credit to the authors and the journal, citing the version of record by DOI where possible.
Provide a link to the CC BY 4.0 licence.
Indicate whether changes were made, without implying endorsement by the authors or Lumora.

Because CC BY 4.0 already grants these rights, readers do not need to request permission from Lumora or the authors for reuse that complies with the licence terms.

Licence statement on every article

Every published article carries a copyright and licence statement, in both the HTML and PDF versions, in substantially this form:

© 2026 by the authors. Licensee: Lumora, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Third-party material

The CC BY licence covers the authors' own work. It does not extend to material owned by others. Before submission, authors must:

Obtain written permission to reproduce any third-party copyrighted material — including previously published figures, maps, photographs, extended quotations, questionnaires, and measurement instruments — unless that material is itself openly licensed or in the public domain.
Ensure the permission covers open access publication under CC BY 4.0, or clearly mark the material as excluded from the article's licence (for example, "Reproduced with permission from …; not covered by the CC BY licence").
Credit the source of all third-party material in the figure legend or text, and retain copies of permission documents, which the editorial office may request at any time.

Responsibility for clearing third-party rights rests with the authors. Articles found to include unlicensed third-party material after publication are handled under our Corrections & Retractions Policy.

Authorship and originality

By submitting, authors confirm that the work is original, that they hold (or have cleared) all rights in the material submitted, and that the manuscript is not published or under consideration elsewhere. Questions of authorship, contributorship, and disputed ownership are handled in line with COPE guidance and ICMJE authorship criteria — see our Publication Ethics policy.

Permissions requests

Most reuse of Lumora content is already permitted by CC BY 4.0 and needs no request. For questions about attribution, licence scope, third-party material within an article, or bulk reuse, contact Support@lumora.sa.

Last updated: July 2026 · Related: Open Access Policy, Publication Ethics, Archiving & Preservation, All Policies