Open Access Policy
The DELSU Journal of Niger Delta Studies is published under Open Access and dedicated to the unrestricted publication of academic research and is a fully open-access publication. A copy of the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY–NC 4.0), which governs the distribution of all articles published in the Journal, can be found at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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- Copy and distribute the content in any format or media.
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- As long as users abide by the license terms, the Journal, the licensor, cannot take away these liberties.
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