Copyright and Licensing

International Journal of Economic Sciences (IJES) supports the dissemination, accessibility, and lawful reuse of scholarly research while protecting the copyright and intellectual property rights of authors and third-party rights holders.

Copyright Ownership

Authors retain copyright in articles published in IJES. Publication in the journal does not require authors to transfer copyright ownership to the Editor-in-Chief, Editors, Editorial Board, Editorial Staff, or Publisher.

By publishing an article in IJES, authors grant the journal the right of first publication and authorize the journal and Publisher to publish, disseminate, preserve, archive, index, and make the Version of Record permanently available in accordance with the journal's open-access and licensing policies.

Authors retain the right to reuse, share, distribute, archive, and otherwise make lawful use of their published work in accordance with the applicable Creative Commons license.

Creative Commons License

Articles published in IJES are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

Under the CC BY 4.0 License, users may:

  • copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format;
  • share and distribute the published material;
  • remix, transform, translate, and adapt the material;
  • build upon the material; and
  • use the material for any lawful purpose, including commercial purposes.

These permissions apply provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s), the original publication in IJES is appropriately identified, a link to the CC BY 4.0 License is provided, and any changes made to the original material are clearly indicated.

Attribution must not be presented in a manner that suggests that the original author(s), IJES, its Editors, or Publisher endorse a particular user, organization, product, modification, or use of the material unless such endorsement has been expressly provided.

Protection of Intellectual Property

Authors, reviewers, editors, Editorial Board members, Guest Editors, and other individuals involved in the editorial process must respect the intellectual property rights associated with submitted and published scholarly work.

Unpublished ideas, hypotheses, data, methods, analyses, results, models, algorithms, source code, computational procedures, figures, tables, or other scholarly contributions obtained through confidential manuscript submission, editorial assessment, or peer review must not be used for personal, academic, professional, financial, competitive, or commercial advantage without appropriate authorization.

Submitted manuscripts and associated editorial and peer-review materials must be treated as confidential. Reviewers and editors must not appropriate, reproduce, distribute, disclose, or incorporate unpublished manuscript material into their own work without appropriate authorization from the authors.

Where suspected unauthorized use, appropriation, or misuse of confidential manuscript material raises a publication ethics concern, the matter will be considered in accordance with the journal's Unethical Behavior policy.

Third-Party Material

The CC BY 4.0 License applicable to an IJES article does not automatically apply to third-party material included in that article where a credit line, copyright notice, or other indication specifies different rights or licensing conditions.

Authors are responsible for determining whether third-party material included in their manuscript may lawfully be reproduced, adapted, translated, or otherwise used. Where the intended use is not permitted by an applicable license, the public-domain status of the material, applicable law, or another relevant legal exception, authors must obtain permission from the appropriate rights holder before publication.

Third-party material may include, but is not limited to:

  • figures, photographs, illustrations, maps, diagrams, and other visual material;
  • tables, charts, schemes, and graphical material;
  • substantial extracts of copyrighted text;
  • datasets or database material subject to separate rights or licensing conditions;
  • material previously published by the authors where the necessary rights are held by another party; and
  • other copyrighted material for which the authors do not hold the rights necessary for the intended reuse.

Adaptation and Reuse of Existing Material

Merely modifying, redrawing, translating, or adapting previously published material does not necessarily eliminate rights associated with the original work. Authors must determine whether the proposed adaptation requires permission and must appropriately acknowledge the original source.

Independently created tables, figures, graphs, charts, or other materials based on underlying data or information that may lawfully be reused may normally be included without obtaining permission for the independently created presentation, provided that protected elements of another work are not reproduced and the original data or information source is appropriately acknowledged.

Short quotations or other limited uses of copyrighted material may not require separate permission where the intended use is permitted under an applicable license, copyright exception, or other applicable law. Appropriate attribution and citation are nevertheless required.

Obtaining Permission

Authors should identify potential copyright and licensing issues and obtain any necessary permissions sufficiently early to avoid delays during the editorial and publication process.

Where permission is required, authors are responsible for obtaining authorization that covers the intended publication and distribution of the material as part of an open-access article.

The Editorial Office may request evidence of permission or information concerning the licensing status of third-party material. Material for which the necessary rights cannot be established may be required to be removed or replaced.

IJES will not knowingly publish third-party material where the rights, licenses, or permissions necessary for publication have not been established.

Credit Lines

Third-party material should be accompanied by an appropriate acknowledgement or credit line where required by the rights holder, applicable license, or source.

Where a rights holder specifies a particular form of acknowledgement, authors must comply with those requirements. Otherwise, the credit line should clearly identify the original author or creator, source, rights holder or publisher where applicable, and indicate whether the material has been reproduced or adapted.

Author Reuse and Self-Archiving

Because authors retain copyright and articles are published under CC BY 4.0, authors may reuse and disseminate their published work in accordance with the terms of that license.

Requirements concerning the deposit and dissemination of submitted, accepted, and published versions are provided separately in the journal's Self-archiving Policy.

Published Content and Post-Publication Concerns

Where a copyright, intellectual property, or permissions concern affects material that has already been published, IJES may assess whether clarification, correction, removal of specific material, or another formal amendment to the scholarly record is necessary.

Formal post-publication actions affecting a published article will be handled, where applicable, in accordance with the journal's Retraction and Correction Policies.

Rights and Licensing Enquiries

Questions concerning copyright, licensing, permissions, intellectual property, or the reuse of material published in IJES may be directed to the Editorial Office.