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3. Author warrants, on behalf of all manuscript and/or creative work authors, that:
4. The manuscript and/or creative work is original, has not been formally published in any other peer-reviewed journal, is not under consideration for publication by any other journal and does not infringe any existing copyright or any other third party rights;
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6. The manuscript and/or creative work contains nothing that is unlawful, libelous, or which would, if published, constitute a breach of contract.
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Authors who publish with the ETHEL Undergraduate Research Journal print or digital publication, agree to the following terms:

1. Author(s) shall retain copyright to the manuscript and/or creative work but grant the Journal right of first publication (subject to the institutional repository deposit requirement in II.b. below), and the irrevocable right to perpetually disseminate the article as part of the Journal subject to the Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this Journal.
2. Upon publication of the article, Author agrees to deposit a copy of the published version of the manuscript in J. Murrey Atkins Library’s institutional repository, Niner Commons as well as the ETHEL Undergraduate Research Journal website.

1. Beginning one year after the date of formal publication of the article, Authors may enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the Journal's published version of the work and subject to the Creative Commons Attribution License (e.g., publish it in a book), subject to a proper acknowledgement of its initial publication in this Journal: This article was originally published in the ETHEL Undergraduate Research Journal at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Vol., Issue, Year).

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