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Licence history: All articles published since the launch of the journal in 2015 have been freely available online without charge to readers. Articles published from Volume 1, Issue 1 (2015) to Volume 12, Issue 2 (June 2026) are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) licence, as stated on each article. Articles published from Volume 12, Issue 3 (September 2026) onwards are licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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