A time to scatter stones and a time to gather them

Ecclesiastes 3:5

Natural Systems of Mind

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The NaSoM is committed to protect and defend authors’ works and their reputation. We take allegations of infringement, plagiarism, ethical disputes, and fraud very seriously.

Author rights:

  • Use own research data freely without any restriction.
  • Receive proper attribution and credit for own published work
  • Re-use own material in new works without permission or payment provided full acknowledgement of the original article:
    • extend an article to book length;
    • include an article in a subsequent compilation of own work;
    • re-use portions, excerpts, and figures or tables in other works.
  • Use and share own works for scholarly purposes among the research colleagues, in case of the students’ teaching, presenting the article at a conference, as well as in their own thesis or dissertation.
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