Everything we publish is free to read from the day it appears. Authors keep the copyright in their work and choose the licence under which others may reuse it.
Research in the language disciplines is often written far from the institutions that can afford subscriptions, and read in places where a paywall means the work simply does not exist. We publish on full open access for that reason: no subscription, no reader fee, no embargo.
Articles carry a Creative Commons licence and are deposited with long-term archiving services so they remain available if the press does not.
Anyone may share and adapt the work, including commercially, as long as they credit the author and indicate changes. This is our default.
Anyone may share the work for non-commercial purposes without adapting it, with credit. Available on request where a translation or edition requires it.
You keep copyright. You grant us a licence to publish, and nothing more. You may reuse your article in your teaching, in a thesis, in a later book or in translation, with a citation to the original publication.
We ask only that the version of record remains the citable one and that reuse credits the journal.
Deposit the submitted, accepted or published version in your institutional repository, on a subject repository, or on your own site at any time, with no embargo. Link to the version of record where you can.
Journal content is preserved through the archiving services supported by our journal platforms, and we keep an independent copy of every published file.
Authors sign a short licence to publish at acceptance. It is two pages, in plain language, and it does not transfer your copyright.