This page describes how copyright and licensing apply to articles published in IJAERD (International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development), published by KG Publication, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India.
Authors retain full copyright in their published articles. By submitting a manuscript to IJAERD, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive licence to publish, distribute, and archive the article, and to deposit metadata and full text with indexing partners and preservation archives, including CrossRef, Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Academia.edu, Mendeley, Semantic Scholar, SSRN, Scribd, and ISSUU.
The journal does not require, and does not accept, any transfer of copyright from authors. Authors may freely deposit the published version in personal websites, institutional repositories, and subject repositories without further permission from the journal.
All articles published in IJAERD are released as open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence. Under this licence, any user is permitted to:
Under the following terms:
Use is non-commercial when it is not primarily intended for, or directed towards, commercial advantage or monetary compensation.
- Teaching and educational use
- Scholarly citation in academic papers
- Inclusion in personal or institutional websites
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- Deposit in institutional or subject repositories
- Sharing through scholarly networks (ResearchGate, ORCID, etc.)
- Inclusion in commercial textbooks or course packs
- Inclusion in commercial training or e-learning materials
- Incorporation into commercial software or products
- Sale or licensing as part of a commercial database
- Any use primarily directed at commercial gain
Where an article includes content from a third party — figures, tables, extended quotations, or other material — for which the authors do not hold the rights, authors are responsible for obtaining and supplying the necessary permissions before publication. Such third-party content is governed by the original rights-holder's terms and is not automatically covered by the CC BY-NC 4.0 licence applied to the article as a whole.
Authors may freely reuse their own published articles, in any way, in any medium, including in their own books, theses, lectures, presentations, and websites. Authors are encouraged to:
Commercial reuse of an article requires permission from the author or authors. Requests for commercial reuse should be addressed directly to the corresponding author of the article in question. The journal does not broker or manage commercial licensing on behalf of authors.
After acceptance, authors are required to download, sign, and upload the IJAERD Copyright Form as part of the publication process. The Copyright Form formalises the non-exclusive licence granted to the journal and confirms the authors' declarations regarding originality, authorship, and ethical conduct.
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