The Mechanical Journal  is committed to maintaining the highest standards of intellectual property management. This policy outlines the copyright, licensing, and publication rights for works published in Mechanical Journal   to ensure transparency and understanding for authors and readers.

Author Rights

The copyright of all published articles remains with the original author(s). Authors retain the rights to use their work in future publications, distribute copies, and present the work at conferences. However, to facilitate the publication of their work in Mechanical Journal , authors are required to transfer the non-exclusive right to publish the article to the journal. 

Licensing

This work is licensed under a CC-BY-NC Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, meaning all content is freely available without charge to users or / institutions. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to full-text articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or author as long as no commercial purposes as stated in the CC-BY-NC license from the Creative Commons as presented on the link https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Authors can enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.

Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) before and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (Refer to The Effect of Open Access)