J. Comput. Mech. Manag. Now Accepts Submissions in PDF Format Only
Effective immediately, all manuscript submissions to the Journal of Computers, Mechanical and Management (J. Comput. Mech. Manag.) must be uploaded in PDF format only.
Copyright and Licensing
This page describes how copyright and licensing work for articles published in the Journal of Computers, Mechanical and Management.
Author retention of copyright
Authors retain full copyright in their published articles. By submitting to the journal, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive licence to publish, distribute, and archive the article, and to deposit metadata and full text with indexing partners and preservation archives.
Licence to readers
All articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence. The licence allows any user to:
- Share: copy and redistribute the article in any medium or format;
- Adapt: remix, transform, and build upon the article;
under the following terms:
- Attribution: appropriate credit must be given, a link to the licence must be provided, and any changes must be indicated;
- NonCommercial: the article and any derivative works may not be used for commercial purposes.
What "non-commercial" means
Use is non-commercial when it is not primarily intended for or directed towards commercial advantage or monetary compensation. Examples of permitted non-commercial uses include teaching, scholarly citation, inclusion in personal or institutional websites, and inclusion in non-commercial scholarly aggregators. Examples of uses that require additional permission from the authors include inclusion in commercial textbooks, inclusion in commercial training materials, and incorporation into commercial software or products.
Third-party content
Where an article includes content from a third party (figures, tables, extended quotations) for which the authors do not hold the rights, authors are responsible for obtaining and supplying the necessary permissions before publication. Such content is governed by the original rights-holder's terms, not by the CC BY-NC 4.0 licence on the article as a whole.
Reuse by authors
Authors may freely reuse their own published articles, in any way, in any medium, including in their own books, theses, lectures, and websites. Authors are encouraged to deposit their articles in institutional and subject repositories and to share them through scholarly networks.
Commercial reuse
Commercial reuse of an article requires permission from the author or authors. Requests should be addressed to the corresponding author of the article in question.
Article footer formatting and legacy articles
From Volume 5 Issue 2, 2026 onwards, the published article PDF carries the standard copyright line in the form "© [year] The Author(s)", in line with international scholarly publishing convention. Articles published before Volume 5 Issue 2, 2026 use an earlier formatting convention in the footer; this convention does not affect the underlying copyright position. The journal's authoritative position on the licensing of all articles, including those published before the cutover, is set out in the Statement of Licensing Clarification.
