Copyright and Open Access Policy

JBSS provides immediate, free online access to every published article without an embargo period or reader registration requirement, and supports lawful sharing and reuse through clear copyright and licensing terms.

Authors retain copyright. Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0), unless a clearly identified item states otherwise.

Author copyright and publishing licence

Authors retain copyright in their articles. Upon acceptance, authors grant BIOSUSS Publishing a non-exclusive licence to publish the article, identify the Journal of Biological and Sustainability Sciences as the original place of publication, distribute and preserve the work, and maintain the version of record.

Original publication and duplicate publication

A manuscript submitted to JBSS must not have been formally published elsewhere and must not be under simultaneous consideration by another journal. After publication in JBSS, the same article must not be submitted to or republished by another journal as a new original publication.

Legitimate follow-up research

Authors may publish a subsequent article that builds upon a JBSS publication when the new manuscript addresses a distinct research question and contains substantial new data, experiments, analysis, validation or interpretation. The original JBSS article must be cited, all reused material and overlap must be disclosed, and previously published findings must not be represented as new.

Changing only the title, wording, author order or journal format does not create a new research article.
Inappropriate fragmentation of one study into minimally different papers, commonly called salami slicing, is not acceptable.
Reused figures, tables, data or substantial text must be clearly attributed and handled in accordance with the CC BY 4.0 licence and applicable third-party rights.

Translations and secondary publication

A transparent translation or authorised secondary publication may be considered only when the relevant editors agree in advance, the secondary version clearly identifies its status, and the original JBSS article is fully cited and linked. It must never be presented as a separate original study.

Permitted reuse under CC BY 4.0

Readers may read, download, copy, distribute, translate, adapt and build upon the work for lawful purposes.
Reuse must credit the authors, cite the original JBSS publication, identify BIOSUSS Publishing, link to the CC BY 4.0 licence and indicate whether changes were made.
Third-party material excluded from the article licence requires separate permission from its rights holder.

Repository and sharing rights

Authors may deposit and share the published version through institutional or subject repositories, personal websites and scholarly profiles without embargo, provided that the final JBSS citation and DOI or permanent article URL are included.

Version of record

The article page and published full text maintained by JBSS constitute the journal version of record. Legitimate later research does not replace or invalidate that publication. Corrections, expressions of concern, retractions and other updates are permanently linked to the original record.