Copyright & Licensing | Journal of Raw Material Research | JORMAR

Copyright Statement

Authors publishing in JORMAR retain copyright of their work. JORMAR does not require authors to transfer copyright to the journal. Instead, authors grant JORMAR the non-exclusive right to publish and distribute the article.

1. Author Copyright Retention

Upon acceptance and publication, authors retain full copyright over their work. This means authors are free to:

Reuse their work in future publications (with appropriate citation to the original JORMAR publication)
Deposit the article in institutional or subject repositories
Share the article on personal or departmental websites
Use the article for teaching and educational purposes
Compile the article in a thesis or dissertation
Translate the article (with appropriate attribution)

2. Creative Commons Licence

All articles published in JORMAR are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0).

Under this licence, anyone is free to:

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

Provided they give appropriate credit, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made. Full licence terms: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

3. Licence Agreement at Submission

By submitting a manuscript to JORMAR, authors agree to:

Grant JORMAR the non-exclusive right to publish, distribute, and archive the article in all formats and media
Confirm that the work is original and that they have the right to grant this licence
Confirm that all co-authors have consented to submission and agree to the licence terms
Confirm that the work does not infringe the copyright or other intellectual property rights of any third party

4. Third-Party Material

Where an article includes third-party material — figures, tables, images, or text extracted from other publications — it is the responsibility of the authors to obtain written permission from the copyright holder(s) before submission. Authors must provide copies of permission letters to the editorial office and ensure that appropriate credit is given in the published article.

5. Self-Archiving / Green Open Access

JORMAR follows a green open-access policy:

Pre-print (before peer review): Authors may deposit pre-submission versions in any preprint server at any time.
Accepted manuscript (post-review, pre-typeset): May be deposited in any repository immediately upon acceptance.
Version of Record (final published PDF): May be deposited immediately upon publication with no embargo period.

All self-archived versions must acknowledge the original publication in JORMAR and include the article DOI.

6. Institutional Repository Deposit

JORMAR actively encourages authors to deposit published articles in their institutional repositories. Institutional repository managers may contact [email protected] to request the final published PDF for deposit on behalf of authors.