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Health Research in Africa copyright agreement

In submitting an article to HRA, I certify that:

1. I am authorized by my co-authors to enter into these arrangements.
2. I warrant, on behalf of myself and my co-authors, that:
   1. The article is original, has not been formally published in any other peer-reviewed journal, is not under consideration by any other journal and does not infringe any existing copyright or any other third party rights;
   2. I am/we are the sole author(s) of the article and have full authority to enter into this agreement and in granting rights to HRA are not in breach of any other obligation. If the law requires that the article be published in the public domain, I/we will notify HRA at the time of submission upon which clauses 3 through 6 inclusive do not apply;
   3. The article contains nothing that is unlawful, libellous, or which would, if published, constitute a breach of contract or of confidence or of commitment given to secrecy;
   4. I/we have taken due care to ensure the integrity of the article. To my/our - and currently accepted scientific - knowledge all statements contained in it purporting to be facts are true and any formula or instruction contained in the article will not, if followed accurately, cause any injury, illness or damage to the user.

And I agree to the following license agreement:

 HRA Open Access license agreement

Articles published in HRA are Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY CC ND 4.0), which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and if you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material, and the authors retain the copyright and full publishing rights over publication.

Brief summary of the agreement

You are free to:

Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format

The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.

Under the following terms:

Attribution — You must give appropriate credit , provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made . You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

Non Commercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes .

No Derivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.

No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits

Full HRA Open Access license agreement is identical to the  creativecommons.org/licenses License