Declaration of Copyrights

The Copyright and Publishing Rights Policy of the Cosmic Journal of Chemistry (CJC) defines the ownership of intellectual property and the permissions granted to authors, the journal, and third-party readers.

As an Open Access journal operating under standard scholarly publishing frameworks, CJC balancing author retention of rights with open-access distribution.

Core Copyright Terms

1. Ownership & Rights Retention

  • Author Ownership: Authors retain the full copyright of their published articles. The journal does not require authors to transfer copyright ownership to the publisher.

  • Grant of First Publication Rights: Upon manuscript acceptance, authors grant CJC a non-exclusive license to publish, archive, and distribute the work as the original publisher of record.

2. Open Access & Licensing Terms

  • Creative Commons License: Published articles are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

  • Permissions Under CC BY 4.0:

    • Readers and scholars are free to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles without prior permission from the publisher or author.

    • Reuse and adaptation are permitted, provided the original author(s) and source (Cosmic Journal of Chemistry) are properly cited and credited.

3. Author Re-use & Publishing Rights

Because authors retain copyright, they reserve the right to:

  • Re-use their published work in future compilations, book chapters, lecture slides, or educational materials without needing prior permission from CJC.

  • Deposit and self-archive the published version (Publisher's PDF), accepted version (post-print), or pre-print in institutional or public repositories (such as ResearchGate or university portals).

Third-Party Content Rights

  • Permission for Copyrighted Material: Authors are solely responsible for securing written permissions for any copyrighted material (e.g., figures, complex tables, schemes, or extensive text excerpts) included in their submission that they do not own.

  • Attribution: Any third-party content included with permission must be explicitly acknowledged in the manuscript captions (e.g., "Reproduced with permission from [Publisher/Author]").

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