Copyright Ownership

Authors retain copyright in their original scholarly work unless otherwise required by applicable law, funder or institutional requirements, or a separate written agreement.

License to Publish

Upon acceptance and publication, authors grant the International Journal of Bio Sciences and Chemistry and its publisher a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to publish, reproduce, distribute, communicate, display, archive, preserve, and maintain the article as part of the scholarly record.

This license also permits the journal to maintain the published Version of Record and associated publication metadata, including the DOI and other persistent identifiers, where applicable.

Creative Commons License

Unless otherwise stated, articles published in the International Journal of Bio Sciences and Chemistry are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Text and Data Mining

Where articles are published under the CC BY 4.0 license, they may be used for text and data mining, including computational research, scientific analysis, and the development or training of research tools, subject to the license's attribution requirements and any applicable legal restrictions.

Funder and Institutional Compliance

The CC BY 4.0 license is intended to support common open-access requirements established by research funders and institutions, including those associated with Plan S and similar open-access mandates.

Third-Party Material

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to use third-party copyrighted material wherever required.

Third-party material may be subject to separate copyright or licensing terms and is not automatically covered by the CC BY 4.0 license applied to an article. Appropriate attribution and permission requirements must be observed.

Publication and Licensing Agreement

Upon acceptance, the corresponding author is responsible for completing the applicable Publication and Licensing Agreement and confirming that the necessary rights, permissions, and author approvals have been obtained.

The agreement establishes the applicable copyright and licensing arrangements for publication in the journal.

Version of Record

The final article published by the International Journal of Bio Sciences and Chemistry constitutes the Version of Record (VoR) and represents the official published version of the article.

The journal may make reasonable technical, formatting, accessibility, metadata, and preservation changes necessary to maintain the integrity, accessibility, and reliability of the published scholarly record.

Governing Law

This policy and the associated Publication and Licensing Agreement are governed by the laws of India, subject to applicable legal requirements.

Related Policies

For information on author sharing and reuse rights, see the Author Rights policy.

For information on open-access publishing and long-term preservation, see the Open Access Policy.

For other matters relating to authorship, publication ethics, corrections, and research integrity, please refer to the relevant journal policies.