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License

When sending a manuscript the author(s) accept the digital publishing contract sähköisen kustannussopimuksen (please open the link and read it!). The publishing contract covers the publication of the manuscript on the paper and digital versions of the Alue ja ympäristö journal according to the Open Access principles and the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/].  The conditions allow anyone to copy and distribute the work for free in any medium and form, changed or unchanged provided that appropriate credit to author(s) is given, a link provided to the license, and any changes are indicated. Information on copyright issues in Finland are given by Kopiosto. 

Alue ja ympäristö is a scientific journal that doesn't pursue economical gain. Instead the purpose of the publishing contract is to acknowledge the moral rights of the author(s) to their work and make possible the distribution of results of scientific research in Alue ja ympäristö journal in print as well as in digital form. 

The licence concerning the metadata of published articles is Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0).

More information about open science in Finland:

• https://openscience.fi/

• https://libraryguides.helsinki.fi/oa/eng