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Attribution and reuse

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CC BY 4.0 does not automatically cover expressly excluded material. Image rights, privacy, trademarks, and personal data are respected, especially where minors or members of educational communities appear.

Versions and self-archiving

Authors may deposit the submitted manuscript, accepted manuscript, and published version in institutional or subject repositories, academic profiles, and personal websites without embargo. Each deposit identifies its version and, after publication, includes the citation and DOI of the version of record.

Data and supplementary materials

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Rights in university instruments and third-party material

For articles using educational instruments, institutional tables, software, classroom photographs, screenshots of learning platforms or teaching materials, authors document ownership or reuse authorization and explain exclusions from the article's license. Adapting a protected instrument may require the owner's permission; attribution alone does not automatically confer that permission.

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Repositories and first publication rights

Authors retain copyright while granting SIHE a non-exclusive right of first publication under CC BY 4.0. The journal imposes no embargo on self-archiving the published version. Circulating versions identify their editorial status and, once available, link to the version of record through its DOI.