Copyright and Licensing

Journal of the Malaysian Parliament (JournalMP) is an open-access journal available to all users. JournalMP is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Under this license, users are free to copy and distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit given to the original work and license their new creations under the identical terms. Materials appearing in JournalMP may be distributed freely by electronic or any other means provided that no charge is imposed and that JournalMP is acknowledged as the source.

Authors of articles provide their consent to publish and transfer copyright to the Parliament of Malaysia (as the publisher) upon the acceptance of the article for publication. Authors must seek permission from JournalMP to publish in whole or in part their articles that have been published in JournalMP in another publication. Authors retain the copyright for material published in JournalMP in the sense of any factual inaccuracies or opinions expressed therein are the authors’, and do not necessarily reflect the knowledge, views, or position of the Parliament of Malaysia (as the publisher). Authors also retain the right to self-archive the article published in JournalMP.