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 Copyright transfer agreement form Salale University, Fiche, Ethiopia and the Author(s) hereby agree: In consideration of the Salale Journal of Social and Indigenous studies which is hosted by SlU) reviewing and editing the Work described below for first and exclusive publication,

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The author(s) who sign below hereby assign, convey, and otherwise transfer all rights, title, interest, and copyright ownership in this Work to SlU when the Journal (Salale Journal of Social and Indigenous Studies (SJSIS)) accepts it for publication.

• “Work” means the material submitted for publication plus any other related material submitted to the Journal (Salale Journal of Social and Indigenous Studies (SJSIS)) hosted by SlU.
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All accepted Works become SlU property and may not be published elsewhere without SlU prior written permission.

• Authors may use parts of the Work in subsequent works without asking the SlU’s permission. For Works created under grant and accepted for publication in a SlU journal (Salale Journal of Social and Indigenous Studies (SJSIS)), the author may cause the Accepted Version of the Work to be posted on the Web archive of a body that funded all or part of the Work, and/or an author’s institutional repository, provided that this post appears no sooner than 6 months after the SlU publishes the Work in a journal and that the archive is publicly and non -Commercially available via the World Wide Web.
• The “Accepted Version” means the paper includes peer review changes but not SlU’s copy editing and production changes.

• “No sooner than 6 months after the SlU publishes the Work” means at least 6 months after the first appearance of the Work either on the SlU journal’s (Salale Journal of Social and Indigenous Studies (SJSIS) ) Web site as a publish ahead of print article or on the SlU journal’s Web site published as part of a regular issue.

Authors hereby represent and warrant that

• They are the sole authors of the Work,
• All authors have participated in and agree with the content and Work’s conclusions,
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• No part of it nor any Work based on substantially similar data has been submitted to another journal for publication. If SlU does not publish this Work, the authors will be notified and all rights given to SlU will revert to them.

 If this is a joint Work, all co-authors must transfer rights in this Work to SlU by executing this Agreement. This Agreement must be executed as is without revision or substitution of terms. The author’s original, handwritten [and/or scanned] signature is required. This Agreement is governed by the laws of Ethiopia.

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