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

Licensing

Authors submitting to Mechanical  must be aware that if their work is accepted for publication, the final published version will be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonComercial (CC BY-NC). This license allows others to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. Under the terms of the CC BY-NC 4.0 license, users must give appropriate credit to the original author(s), provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. This must be done in a reasonable manner but not in any way that suggests the author(s) endorse the user or their use of the work. Additionally, any derivative works must be distributed under the same license as the original.