Copyright Policy

Copyright and Licensing Policy

The Journal of Food Innovation, Nutrition and Environmental Sciences (JFINES) is an open-access journal. The journal supports the broad dissemination and reuse of published research while ensuring that authors receive appropriate credit for their work.

1. Copyright Ownership

Authors retain copyright of articles published in JFINES.

By submitting and publishing with the journal, authors grant JFINES a non-exclusive licence to publish the article, make it available online, distribute it through the journal platform, and identify JFINES as the original publisher.

This means that authors remain free to use, share, distribute, reproduce, and archive their published work, provided that the original publication in JFINES is properly acknowledged.

2. Open-Access Licence

Articles published in JFINES are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0), unless otherwise stated.

Under this licence, users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to, share, adapt, and reuse published articles for lawful purposes, including research, teaching, policy, practice, and commercial use, provided that proper attribution is given.

Proper attribution should include:

  • the name of the author or authors;
  • the title of the article;
  • the name of the journal;
  • the volume, issue, year, and page or article number where applicable;
  • the DOI or permanent article link where available;
  • a statement that the article is licensed under CC BY 4.0.

3. Reuse and Adaptation

The CC BY 4.0 licence permits reuse and adaptation of published work, provided that the original source is properly cited and any changes made to the work are clearly indicated.

Users must not imply that the authors, journal, editors, or publisher endorse any adaptation, reuse, product, service, or interpretation unless such endorsement has been explicitly provided in writing.

4. Author Rights

Authors may use their published articles in a wide range of ways, including:

  • depositing the article in institutional or subject repositories;
  • sharing the article on personal, institutional, or professional websites;
  • using the article in teaching, training, and presentations;
  • including the article in theses, dissertations, books, or future scholarly work, with appropriate citation;
  • distributing copies to colleagues, students, policy actors, or other interested readers;
  • complying with funder or institutional open-access requirements.

Authors do not need to request permission from JFINES for these uses, provided that the original publication is properly cited.

5. Third-Party Material

Authors are responsible for ensuring that any third-party material included in their manuscript complies with copyright and licensing requirements.

Third-party material may include, but is not limited to:

  • figures;
  • tables;
  • photographs;
  • maps;
  • diagrams;
  • questionnaires or tools;
  • datasets;
  • long quotations;
  • previously published text;
  • adapted or reproduced materials.

Where permission is required, authors must obtain written permission from the copyright holder before submission or before publication. Authors must also provide appropriate credit lines, acknowledgements, and licence information for third-party materials.

Material that is not covered by the article’s open-access licence must be clearly identified in the manuscript.

6. Author Responsibility for Copyright Compliance

Authors are responsible for ensuring that their submitted work does not infringe the copyright, moral rights, privacy rights, confidentiality rights, or other legal rights of any person or organisation.

By submitting a manuscript to JFINES, authors confirm that:

  • the manuscript is original, except where properly cited or acknowledged;
  • they have the right to submit and publish the work;
  • all necessary permissions for third-party material have been obtained;
  • the manuscript does not unlawfully reproduce copyrighted material;
  • all authors have agreed to the submission and publication of the article.

7. Publisher Rights

JFINES and its publisher retain the right to publish, host, preserve, index, distribute, promote, and archive the final published version of record.

The journal may deposit metadata and full-text links with indexing services, repositories, preservation systems, discovery platforms, and other scholarly databases to support the visibility, accessibility, and long-term preservation of published content.

8. Corrections and Retractions

The open-access licence applies to the published article unless a correction, expression of concern, retraction, or legal restriction requires otherwise.

Where an article is corrected or retracted, JFINES will maintain the scholarly record in accordance with its correction and retraction policies. Retracted articles may remain accessible with clear labelling to preserve the integrity of the academic record, unless removal is required for legal, ethical, or safety reasons.