Copyright and Licensing Policy

Copyright and Licensing Policy

1. The journal holds copyright in the articles

Copyright in all articles published in IJCIE is held by the journal. On acceptance, and as a condition of publication, authors transfer copyright in their article to the International Journal of Computational Intelligence in Engineering (IJCIE). The transfer takes effect only if the article is accepted; authors retain full ownership of a manuscript that is rejected or withdrawn.

Because the journal holds copyright, the copyright line on every IJCIE article names the journal, in the form: Copyright © [year] International Journal of Computational Intelligence in Engineering (IJCIE).

This policy applies to the articles. Copyright in the journal's website, branding and templates is held separately and is described in section 7.

2. What the transfer covers, and what it does not

The transfer gives IJCIE the right to publish, reproduce, distribute, translate, archive and license the article, and to deposit its metadata with indexing, preservation and identifier services. It exists so that the journal can guarantee the permanence of the published record, register DOIs, deposit content with preservation networks, and act against misuse of the version of record.

It does not restrict what anyone may do with the article, because IJCIE immediately licenses every article to the public under CC BY-SA 4.0 (section 3), and it does not restrict what the authors may do with their own work (section 4). No IJCIE article is published on restrictive "all rights reserved" terms.

Authors retain, in all cases, their moral rights: the right to be identified as the authors of the work and the right to object to derogatory treatment of it.

3. Licence to the public

Every article published in IJCIE is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-SA 4.0). Under this licence, any person may:

• Share – copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format;
• Adapt – remix, transform and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercially;

subject to two conditions:

• Attribution – appropriate credit must be given to the authors and to IJCIE as the place of first publication, with a link to the licence and an indication of any changes made;
• ShareAlike – any adapted material must be distributed under the same licence as the original.

The licence is granted by IJCIE as the copyright holder, and is granted immediately on publication with no embargo period. It is stated on the landing page of every article, embedded in the article metadata, and printed in the published PDF. Once granted, a Creative Commons licence is irrevocable: IJCIE cannot withdraw the rights it has given to readers.

4. Rights granted back to the authors

Separately from the public licence, IJCIE grants authors the following rights in their own article. Authors may do all of the following at any time, without seeking permission from IJCIE:

• reproduce the article in a thesis, dissertation, book or teaching material;
• post the submitted, accepted or published version on a personal website, an institutional repository, a subject repository or a preprint server, with no embargo;
• distribute copies to colleagues, students and funding bodies;
• reuse figures, tables and text in later work of their own;
• translate the article, and license translations under the same terms;
• enter into separate, additional non-exclusive arrangements for the distribution of the published version.

In every case the authors must acknowledge initial publication in IJCIE and cite the DOI. Authors who wish to do something not listed here should write to info@ijcie.com; permission for any reasonable scholarly reuse by an author of their own work is granted as a matter of course and free of charge.

5. Copyright in third-party material

Where a manuscript reproduces figures, tables, photographs, datasets, code or extended quotations owned by a third party, it is the authors' responsibility to obtain written permission for reuse under CC BY-SA 4.0 and to cite the source in the caption. Material that cannot be licensed on those terms must be removed or replaced before publication.

6. Choosing a different licence

CC BY-SA 4.0 is the licence IJCIE applies by default. Authors whose funder mandates a different Creative Commons licence – most often CC BY 4.0 – should say so in writing before acceptance, and IJCIE will apply the requested licence at no additional charge. Authors who are required by their funder or institution to retain copyright themselves should also raise this before acceptance; the editorial office will consider such requests individually and will not require a transfer that would put an author in breach of a mandate.

7. Copyright in the website, separate from the articles

Copyright in the journal's website, its design and layout, the IJCIE name and logo, the manuscript template, and editorial material published outside articles (such as editorials, announcements and these policy pages) is held by IJCIE and DeepCognix AI Labs and is not covered by the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence that applies to the articles. The two are deliberately distinct: the articles are openly licensed, the website furniture is not.

8. Enforcement

Because the journal holds copyright in the articles, IJCIE can and will act against plagiarism of published articles, unattributed republication, and misrepresentation of the version of record, including by contacting the infringing publisher or platform. Authors who become aware of such misuse should report it to info@ijcie.com. The editorial office will also, on request, provide documentation confirming the date of publication, the licence applied and the version of record.

Reuse that complies with CC BY-SA 4.0 – crediting the authors and IJCIE, and sharing adaptations under the same licence – is permitted and is not infringement.

9. Questions

Any question about copyright, licensing or permissions should be sent to info@ijcie.com.