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Novel Forensic Research (NOFOR) is an open-access journal whose publication model is based on the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). All published articles are freely accessible online at https://nofor.org/

Authors retain copyright and all other proprietary rights to their published work without restriction.

Articles are published under the CreativeCommons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0), which permits readers and other users to share, reproduce, distribute, and adapt the content for non-commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given, a link to the license is provided, and changes are indicated. License details: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.

Authors grant Novel Forensic Research (NOFOR) and its publisher the right of first publication and non-exclusive rights to publish, reproduce, archive, preserve, and distribute accepted articles in electronic and print formats. Any commercial use beyond the CC BY-NC 4.0 license requires separate permission from the copyright holder(s).

A Copyright Agreement and Acknowledgementof Authorship Form must be completed and signed by all authors and submitted during the initial manuscript submission.

When previously published third-party content, including figures, tables, photographs, or other copyrighted material, is included in a manuscript, authors must provide appropriate attribution and obtain permission from the relevant copyright holder when required. Such materials that are excluded from the article’s CC BY-NC 4.0 license must be clearly identified.