Copyright & Licence

Copyright

Copyright for articles published in this journal is retained by Journal of Integrative Natural Science (JoINS). However, as an article writer, the author has the right to use their articles for various purposes, including use by institutions that employ authors or institutions that provide funding for research. Author rights are granted without special permission. The author who publishes a paper at JoINS has the broad right to use their work for teaching and scientific purposes without the need to ask permission, including used for :

  1. Teaching in the author's class or institution,
  2. Presentation at meetings or conferences and distributing copies to participants ;
  3. Training conducted by the author or author's institution;
  4. Distribution to colleagues for research use;
  5. Use in the compilation of subsequent authors' works;
  6. Inclusion in a thesis or dissertation;
  7. Reuse of part of the article in another work (with citation);
  8. Preparation of derivative works (with citation);
  9. Voluntary posting on open websites operated by authors or author institutions for scientific purposes (follow the CC BY-SA License).

Authors and readers can copy and redistribute the material in any media or format, and mix, modify, and build material for any purpose but they must provide appropriate credit (provide article citation or content), provide links to the license, and indicate if there are changes.

Reproduce any part of this journal, its storage in the database, or its transmission by all forms of media is permitted and does not need written permission from JoINS. However, it should be cited as an honor in academic manners. JoINS, the publisher, and the editor make every effort to ensure that there are no data, opinions, or false or misleading statements published in JoINS. However, the content of the article is the sole and exclusive responsibility of each author.

License

Journal of Integrative Natural Science (JoINS) applies the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) License to all works that we publish. This license was developed to facilitate open access – namely, free immediate access to, and unrestricted reuse of, original works of all types. Under this license, authors agree to make articles legally available for reuse, without permission or fees, for virtually any purpose. Anyone may copy, distribute or reuse these articles, as long as the author and original source are properly cited.

No permission is required from the authors or the publishers to reuse or repurpose JoINS content provided the original article is cited. In most cases, appropriate attribution can be provided by simply citing the original article.