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.

Publication in the International Journal of AI and Advanced Engineering does not transfer copyright ownership from the authors to the journal or its publisher, Scholar Unity.

License to Publish

Upon acceptance and publication, authors grant the International Journal of AI and Advanced Engineering and Scholar Unity 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.

The applicable rights and terms are confirmed through the journal's Publication and Licensing Agreement.

Creative Commons License

Unless otherwise stated, articles published by the International Journal of AI and Advanced Engineering are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

CC BY 4.0 permits others to share, reproduce, adapt, and build upon the published work, including for commercial purposes, provided appropriate attribution is given, a link to the license is included, and any changes are indicated.

Text and Data Mining

Where articles are published under the CC BY 4.0 license, they may also be used for text and data mining, computational analysis, and related research applications, including use in developing or training computational systems, where permitted by the applicable license and subject to its attribution and other requirements.

Any third-party material excluded from the license remains subject to its own applicable copyright and licensing conditions.

The license applicable to a published article does not automatically grant rights to separately licensed software, proprietary source code, external datasets, patents, or other materials referenced or supplied alongside the article.

Funder and Institutional Compliance

The CC BY 4.0 license used by the journal 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. Authors should confirm any specific funder, institutional, or project-related requirements before submission.

Third-Party Material

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for third-party copyrighted material where required.

Third-party material may include software code, algorithms, technical illustrations, engineering drawings, photographs, figures, tables, datasets, pretrained models, benchmarks, and other content obtained from external sources. Such material may be subject to separate copyright, patent, or licensing terms and is not automatically covered by the CC BY 4.0 license. Appropriate attribution and permission requirements must be observed.

Authors publishing research involving AI systems, machine learning models, computational datasets, software implementations, or engineering technologies should ensure that applicable permissions, intellectual property rights, software licenses, and data-use restrictions have been addressed before publication.

Where research materials contain confidential, proprietary, personal, or otherwise restricted information, authors must also ensure that relevant privacy, confidentiality, and disclosure requirements have been satisfied.

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.

Version of Record

The final article published by the International Journal of AI and Advanced Engineering 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 and accessibility of the published record. Any substantive correction or other post-publication change should be handled in accordance with the journal's applicable editorial and publication policies.

Governing Law

This policy and the associated Publication and Licensing Agreement are governed by the laws of India.

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.