Faith • Civilization • Theology (FCT) makes published contributions freely available to readers without subscription charges or paywalls.
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By agreeing to publication in FCT, the rights holder grants the journal the non-exclusive right to publish, distribute, archive, display and preserve the contribution in its published form.
Published contributions are made available under the licence stated on the individual article page. The migrated inaugural contributions carry a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence, as recorded on their source publication pages.
Where CC BY 4.0 applies, reuse is permitted provided appropriate attribution is given, a link to the licence is supplied, and any changes are indicated.
The licence applying to an article does not automatically extend to separately credited third-party material, including images, figures, tables, extracts, photographs or other content for which different rights or conditions may apply.
Authors are responsible for ensuring that they have permission to include third-party material where permission is required.
Editorial material and book reviews
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For book reviews, the review author and the author of the reviewed book are identified separately. Copyright in the review does not extend to the underlying book, cover artwork, publisher material or other third-party content unless expressly stated.
Author sharing and repository use
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Where corrections, amendments, retractions or removals occur, FCT may update the publication record, version information or access status in accordance with the journal’s Publication Ethics and Corrections policies.
Removal of material does not necessarily imply deletion of the publication record; where appropriate, a notice may remain to preserve the integrity of the scholarly record.
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