Copyright and Licensing

Advances in BioScience (ISSN 2583-0058) is an Open Access journal committed to the wide dissemination of high-quality research in the biological sciences. The journal promotes transparency, accessibility, and broad reuse of scholarly work while ensuring that authors retain ownership of their intellectual property.

All articles published in Advances in BioScience are made freely available online immediately upon publication and may be accessed, shared, and reused in accordance with the licensing terms described below.

Open Access Policy and Licensing

Advances in BioScience operates under a full Open Access publishing model. All published articles are freely accessible to readers worldwide without subscription or access fees.

Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 International License. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction, and adaptation of the work in any medium or format, including for commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original authors and the journal as the source. Under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 International License, users must:

  • Provide appropriate credit to the original authors and the journal.
  • Provide a link to the license.
  • Indicate if changes were made to the original work.

All reuse of content published in Advances in BioScience must acknowledge the original publication and maintain proper citation of the source.

Content published in Advances in BioScience may be freely used for text and data mining (TDM) purposes in accordance with the terms of the CC BY 4.0 International License and applicable law.

This licensing model ensures maximum visibility, accessibility, and reuse of scholarly research.

To learn more about the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 International License, please visit: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The Creative Commons license applies to the final published Version of Record of each article.

Copyright Ownership

Authors who publish in Advances in BioScience retain the copyright of their work. The intellectual property rights for all published articles remain with the authors.

By submitting and publishing their manuscript in the journal, authors grant a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to distribute their work under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 International License, as described in Open Access Policy and Licensing.

In accordance with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines, AI-assisted tools and Large Language Models (LLMs) do not meet the criteria for authorship and cannot be listed as authors or copyright holders. The human authors remain solely responsible for the integrity, originality, and licensing of their intellectual property.

Publishing License

While authors retain copyright, they grant Advances in BioScience a non-exclusive license to:

  • Publish the article in print and/or electronic form.
  • Distribute and make the published work publicly accessible.
  • Archive the published work in perpetuity in the journal’s and third-party digital repositories.

This license allows the journal to disseminate the work widely while preserving the authors’ ownership of their intellectual property.

Author Rights

Authors publishing in Advances in BioScience retain broad rights to use and share their work. Authors may:

  • Share and distribute their published articles freely.
  • Reuse figures, tables, and content from their articles in future publications without requiring formal permission from the journal, provided the original publication is cited.
  • Use their published work for teaching, conference presentations, and other scholarly purposes.

Authors are permitted and encouraged to deposit all versions of their work—including the Preprint (pre-peer review), the Accepted Manuscript (post-peer review), and the Version of Record (final published PDF)—in institutional repositories, preprint servers (e.g., bioRxiv, Europe PMC), or personal websites, provided the original publication in Advances in BioScience is clearly cited.

Author Responsibilities

Authors submitting manuscripts to Advances in BioScience must acknowledge that their work will be published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 International License. Authors are responsible for ensuring that:

  • The submitted work is original, has not been published previously (except as a preprint), and does not infringe upon the intellectual property rights of others.
  • Any third-party content is used in accordance with the requirements set out in Third-Party Content and Permissions.
  • All co-authors have been informed of and have consented to the submission and publication of the manuscript.
  • Any use of AI-assisted writing tools has been disclosed transparently in the manuscript, in line with COPE guidelines and the journal’s editorial policies.

Third-Party Content and Permissions

Authors are responsible for ensuring that any third-party material included in their manuscript — such as figures, tables, images, datasets, or excerpts from previously published works — complies with applicable copyright laws and licensing terms.

If the manuscript contains material that is not owned by the authors, the authors must:

  • Obtain written permission from the copyright holder prior to submission and provide copies of such permissions to the Editorial Office upon request.
  • Properly acknowledge the source of the material and include the required attribution statement as specified by the copyright holder.
  • Clearly indicate within the article where third-party material has been used and provide appropriate attribution, including any licence conditions under which that material is reproduced.

Authors should note that material published under open licences (e.g., CC BY) may be reproduced without additional permission, provided attribution requirements are met. Material under more restrictive licences (e.g., CC BY-NC, CC BY-ND) may require explicit permission or may not be compatible with the journal’s CC BY 4.0 policy.

In cases where copyright violations are identified after publication, the journal reserves the right to issue a correction notice or, where necessary, retract the article in accordance with the journal’s Retraction Policy and COPE retraction guidelines.

User Rights and Responsibilities

Readers, researchers, educators, and other users may access, share, reuse, adapt, and distribute content published in Advances in BioScience in any medium or format, including for commercial purposes, under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 International License.

In doing so, users must ensure that:

  • Proper credit is given to the original authors, including their names, the article title, and the journal name.
  • The journal is acknowledged as the original source of publication, with a link to the published article where possible.
  • The CC BY 4.0 licence is linked and credited.
  • Any adaptations or derivative works are clearly indicated as having been modified from the original.

Contact and Inquiries

For questions regarding copyright, licensing, or permissions, please contact the Editorial Office:

Email: editor@sospublication.co.in

The Editorial Office aims to respond to all inquiries within 10 business days.

Policy Updates

This Copyright and Licensing Policy is subject to periodic review and may be updated or amended as necessary to reflect evolving best practices in scholarly publishing, Open Access policies, and international standards for research dissemination.

Authors and users are encouraged to review this policy periodically. Updates will be announced on the journal website. Changes to licensing terms will not apply retroactively to articles published prior to the effective date of the revision.