Copyright Notice

Copyright Notice

This notice defines the copyright, licensing, and reuse terms for all scholarly content published in the Journal of Biosciences and Innovations (JBI) , ensuring legal transparency and alignment with best practices in open scholarship.

1. Copyright Ownership
Authors retain the copyright of their original research and scholarly contributions. By submitting to and publishing with JBI, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive, irrevocable license to publish, reproduce, distribute, and archive the definitive version of the work in all formats and media.

2. Open Access Licensing
To maximize the dissemination and application of bioscience innovations, each article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) : https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. This license grants any user the worldwide, royalty-free right to:

  • Share – copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.

  • Adapt – remix, transform, translate, and build upon the material for any purpose.

These permissions apply to all uses, including commercial and educational applications, subject to one requirement: proper attribution. Users must:

  • Credit the author(s) and cite Journal of Biosciences and Innovations (JBI) as the original source of publication.

  • Provide a hyperlink to the CC BY 4.0 license.

  • Clearly indicate if the original work has been modified.

3. Rights and Responsibilities

  • Author Rights and Self-Archiving: Authors are expressly permitted and encouraged to deposit the final published PDF (or any version of record) in institutional repositories, subject repositories, preprint servers, personal websites, and academic social networks including ResearchGate (https://www.researchgate.net/) and Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com/). Authors may reuse their own figures, tables, datasets, and text in future publications, presentations, theses, or teaching materials without obtaining further permission, provided the original JBI publication is appropriately cited.

  • Third-Party Content: Authors are solely responsible for obtaining written permission from the copyright holder for any third-party material (e.g., illustrations, photographs, graphs, extended quotations, copyrighted datasets) included in their manuscript. Proof of permission must be provided to the editorial office upon request.

  • Publisher Archiving and Preservation: JBI reserves the right to deposit and maintain all published content in trusted digital preservation networks and archival systems to guarantee its long-term accessibility and preservation for the global scientific community. These include:

4. Ethical Standards and Scholarly Integrity

Authors must confirm that their submission is original, has not been published elsewhere, and does not infringe upon any third-party copyright or intellectual property rights. JBI adheres to the principles, policies, and flowcharts of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) : https://publicationethics.org. Any allegations of plagiarism, copyright infringement, data fabrication, or other ethical violations will be investigated promptly and thoroughly in accordance with COPE guidelines.

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