Licensing & Copyright

Licensing information

Xenarthra (and its previous title Edentata) provides immediate access to all of its research content and adheres to the BOAI definition of open access. Since 2011, all articles are fully available online and since 2022 Xenarthra publishes articles under the terms of the Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). By submitting their manuscripts, authors agree to grant Xenarthra this non-exclusive license, which allows others to copy, distribute, remix, and adapt the articles, however not for commercial purposes, as long as they give appropriate credit to the original authors and the source of publication.

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Authors retain the copyright to their work; they warrant that submitted manuscripts are original, that have not been published previously, and that are not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Authors must obtain the necessary permissions and attribute the source if any copyrighted material is included in the submitted manuscript.

Mariella Superina
journal@xenarthrans.org
Editor, August 2023

Mariella Superina is the Chair of the IUCN SSC Anteater, Sloth and Armadillo Specialist Group and Research Scientist with CONICET in Mendoza Province, Argentina.