Licensing Policy

Qubahan Engineering Journal (QENGJ) publishes its open-access scholarly content under the:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0)

The license supports broad dissemination and responsible reuse of scholarly research while requiring appropriate attribution to the original authors and publication source.

Permitted Use

Under CC BY 4.0, users may:

  • Copy and redistribute published material;

  • Share articles in any medium or format;

  • Adapt, remix, transform, and build upon published material;

  • Reproduce content for educational and research purposes; and

  • Use the material for lawful commercial or non-commercial purposes.

Conditions of Reuse

Users must:

  • Give appropriate credit to the original author or authors;

  • Identify Qubahan Engineering Journal as the original publication source;

  • Provide a link or reference to the CC BY 4.0 license where reasonably possible;

  • Indicate whether changes were made; and

  • Avoid implying endorsement by the authors, journal, editors, or publisher.

Copyright Ownership

Copyright in the final published article is transferred to Qubahan Engineering Journal in accordance with the journal's Copyright Policy.

QENGJ, as copyright holder, distributes the article under the CC BY 4.0 license.

The copyright ownership arrangement does not restrict lawful reuse expressly permitted under that license.

Author Repository Rights

Authors may deposit the published version of their article in:

  • Institutional repositories;

  • Subject repositories;

  • University repositories;

  • Personal academic websites; and

  • Other lawful scholarly platforms.

Where possible, the deposited version should include the citation and DOI or other persistent link to the version of record.

Third-Party Material

Third-party material included in a published article may be subject to separate copyright or licensing conditions.

Where a credit line or copyright notice indicates different terms, that material is not automatically included within the article's CC BY 4.0 license.

Users are responsible for obtaining additional permission where required.

License Display

The applicable license should be clearly displayed on:

  • The article webpage;

  • The full-text article;

  • Article metadata where technically supported; and

  • Relevant journal policy pages.

Previously Published Articles

The license attached to an article at the time of publication governs that article.

Future changes to QENGJ's general licensing policy should not retroactively change the licensing terms of previously published articles unless legally authorized by the relevant rights holder.