In order for Journal of Advanced Guidance and Counseling to publish and distribute research articles, editors need publishing rights (transferred from author to publisher). This agreement relates to the transfer/publishing copyright license to Journal of Advanced Guidance and Counseling, but the authors still have significant rights to use and share their published articles. 

Journal of Advanced Guidance and Counseling supports the need for writers to share, disseminate and maximize the impact of their research and these rights, in any database. As a journal article writer, you have the right to various uses of your articles, including use by the institution or company where you work. Copyrights can be used without the need for special permission. Authors who publish articles in the Journal of Advanced Guidance and Counseling have broad rights to use their work for teaching and scientific purposes without asking for permission, including:

1. use the author for lectures, presentations, or conferences and distribute copies to participants;
2. distribution to colleagues for research use;
3. used in compilations of the author's next work;
4. be included in a thesis or dissertation;
5. reuse of sections or excerpts from articles in other works (with full acknowledgments of the final article);
6. preparation of derivative works (other than commercial purposes) (with full acknowledgment of the final article);
7. voluntary posting on open web sites operated by authors or writers' agencies for scientific purposes

The Authors submitting a manuscript do so on the understanding that if accepted for publication, the copyright for publishing (publishing right) of the article shall be assigned/transferred to Journal of Advanced Guidance and Counseling.