Copyright and Licensing Policy
Copyright
Authors who publish with Journal of Intelligent Systems and Future Computing (JISFC) retain copyright of their work. No copyright transfer to the journal is required or requested. Authors grant JISFC a non-exclusive license to publish, distribute, and archive the article in its published form.
Licensing
All articles published in JISFC are made freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are properly credited.
Under this license, authors and any third party are free to:
- Read, download, and share the article for free.
- Copy, distribute, and transmit the article in any medium or format.
- Adapt, remix, transform, and build upon the article for any purpose, including commercially.
- Reuse figures, tables, and text in future work, with appropriate citation.
Author Rights
This license does not restrict the author(s)' right to:
- Post the published article on personal websites, institutional repositories, or preprint servers, with a link to the published version.
- Enter into separate, non-exclusive licensing arrangements for distribution of the published version, provided proper acknowledgment of first publication in JISFC is retained.
Third-Party Use of Copyrighted Material
Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reuse any third-party material (e.g., figures, tables, extended quotations) within their manuscript that is not their own original work and is not already available under a compatible open license. Proper attribution must be given in all cases.
No Copyright Transfer Agreement
JISFC does not require authors to sign a copyright transfer agreement. Submission and acceptance of a manuscript constitutes the author's agreement to publish under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license described above.
