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CODES provides immediate open access to its content, based on the principle that offering the public 'Open Access' to research helps facilitate greater global knowledge exchange. Its content is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. Under this license, authors retain ownership of copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions.

CODES, being freely accessible, does not charge any fees for submitting works, nor does it provide compensation to authors for their publications. Similarly, no payment is required from readers to access the content.