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Licensing Policy and Previous Framework
Following a review of the journal’s scope and publication policy, The Senarai has updated its licensing framework to align with current scholarly communication practices while ensuring clarity, appropriate reuse, and protection of authors’ works. Articles published in Volume 1 No. 1–3 were distributed under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, allowing non-commercial sharing with proper attribution while prohibiting modification, adaptation, translation, or derivative use in order to preserve the integrity of the original publication. This licensing scheme applied only to those specific issues and is no longer in effect. Beginning with Volume 1 No. 4 and for all subsequent issues, the journal has formally adopted the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license as its standard and continuing licensing policy, permitting non-commercial sharing and adaptation provided that appropriate attribution is given and derivative works are distributed under the same license.

Copyright Ownership	Copyright remains with the author(s). Authors grant The Senarai a non-exclusive license to publish, distribute, and archive the work in accordance with the applicable Creative Commons license.
Author Rights	Authors retain the right to reuse and share their work for academic and personal purposes, including repository deposit and teaching use, with proper attribution to the original publication.
Licensing Framework	Licenses are applied based on the publication period and clearly indicated in each article. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 applies only to Volume 1 No. 1–3, while CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 applies from Volume 1 No. 4 onward as the journal’s ongoing licensing standard.

CC Attribution–NonCommercial–ShareAlike 4.0 International (Volume 1 No. 4 – Present)

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