Copyright and Licensing Policy

The Journal of Emerging Financial Markets and Policy (JEFMP) is published by the Sri Lanka Finance Association (SLFA). JEFMP is committed to the broad dissemination, accessibility, and responsible reuse of scholarly research.

Copyright in articles published in JEFMP is owned by the Sri Lanka Finance Association (SLFA).

Upon acceptance of a manuscript for publication, the author(s) assign copyright in the article to SLFA in accordance with the JEFMP Author Copyright Transfer Agreement.

The copyright assignment covers the published article, including its text, tables, figures, and other original material created by the author(s), except for material identified as belonging to third parties.

SLFA, as the copyright holder, retains the right to publish, reproduce, archive, preserve, and distribute the Version of Record and to make it available through scholarly databases, indexing and abstracting services, repositories, libraries, and other dissemination platforms.

JEFMP provides immediate open access to its published scholarly articles.

All articles published by JEFMP are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

Under the CC BY 4.0 license, users may:

• share and redistribute the article in any medium or format;
• copy and reproduce the article;
• adapt, remix, transform, and build upon the article; and
• use the article for commercial or non-commercial purposes,

provided that appropriate attribution is given, a link to the license is provided, and any changes made to the original work are indicated where applicable.

The full terms of the license are available at:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

JEFMP does not impose additional restrictions that conflict with the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license.

Any use, reproduction, distribution, or adaptation of a JEFMP article must provide appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the original JEFMP publication.

Where applicable, attribution should include:

• author name(s);
• article title;
• Journal of Emerging Financial Markets and Policy;
• volume and issue;
• year of publication;
• page numbers, where applicable;
• DOI or permanent article URL; and
• a link to the CC BY 4.0 license.

Users should also indicate if changes were made to the original work.

Nothing in this policy is intended to remove or limit the authors’ moral rights or their right to be identified as the authors of their work, to the extent provided by applicable law.

The attribution requirements of the CC BY 4.0 license must be observed whenever the work is reused.

Although copyright is assigned to SLFA, authors retain broad rights to use their published work under the CC BY 4.0 license.

Authors may, without seeking additional permission from SLFA:

• use the article for teaching, research, and academic purposes;
• include the article in a thesis or dissertation;
• share the article through institutional repositories and personal academic webpages;
• use the article in conference presentations, lectures, and scholarly materials;
• reuse their own tables, figures, and other original material in subsequent scholarly works; and
• incorporate the article or portions of it into subsequent scholarly publications, subject to appropriate attribution.

These rights are in addition to the rights granted to all users under the CC BY 4.0 license.

The CC BY 4.0 license applies only to material for which SLFA has the necessary rights to grant the license.

Material belonging to third parties, including photographs, figures, tables, instruments, or other copyrighted material reproduced with permission or under another legal basis, may be subject to separate copyright and licensing conditions.

Where applicable, such material will be identified in the relevant caption, acknowledgement, or other appropriate location in the article.

Users are responsible for determining whether separate permission is required for the reuse of third-party material.

SLFA may preserve and disseminate JEFMP articles through digital preservation services, institutional repositories, scholarly databases, indexing and abstracting services, libraries, and other appropriate platforms.

SLFA may provide the journal’s content and associated metadata to third-party services for purposes of scholarly discovery, indexing, preservation, and distribution.

The copyright holder will be identified on the published article and in the article’s full-text version.

The following notice, or substantially similar wording, will normally appear on published articles:

© Sri Lanka Finance Association. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

The license information will also be linked to the official Creative Commons license webpage.

As a condition of publication, the corresponding author, on behalf of all authors, must complete the JEFMP Author Copyright Transfer Agreement confirming the assignment of copyright to SLFA and acknowledging that the article will be published under the CC BY 4.0 license.

This policy applies to all JEFMP scholarly articles unless otherwise stated on the individual article.