Copyright and License Statement

COPYRIGHT

Asian Journal of Aquatic Sciences (AJOAS) are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Authors retain the copyright to their work. Users may read, copy and distribute the work in any medium  provided the authors and the journal are appropriately credited. 

 

LICENSE TO PUBLISH

1. License

All material published by Asian Journal of Aquatic Sciences is protected under International copyright and intellectual property laws. The AJOAS is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License or an equivalent license as the optimal license for the publication, distribution, use, and reuse of scholarly works. 

This license permits anyone to compose, repair, and make derivative creation even for commercial purposes, as long as appropriate credit and proper acknowledgment of the original publication from a journal are made to allow users to trace back to the original manuscript and author.

You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. If you remix, transform or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

2. Author’s Warranties

The author warrants that the article is original, written by stated author/s, has not been published before, contains no unlawful statements, does not infringe the rights of others, is subject to copyright that is vested exclusively in the author and free of any third party rights, and that any necessary written permissions to quote from other sources have been obtained by the author/s.

3. User Rights
All articles Published open access will be immediately and permanently free for erveryone to read, download, copy and distribute. Permitted Reuse is defined by the following user license:

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivs (CC BY-NC-ND): for non-commercial purposes, lets other distribute and copy the article, and to include in a cllective work (such as an anthology), as long as they credit the author(s) and provided they do not alter or modify the article. if ypu need to comply wtih your funding body you can apply for the CC BY license after your manuscript is accepted for publication.

4. Rights of Authors

Authors retain the following rights:

  • copyright, and other proprietary rights relating to the article, such as patent rights,
  • the right to use the substance of the article in future own works, including lectures and books,
  • the right to reproduce the article for own purposes, provided the copies are not offered for sale,
  • the right to self-archive the article.

5. Co-Authorship

If the article was prepared jointly with other authors, the signatory of this form warrants that he/she has been authorized by all co-authors to sign this agreement on their behalf, and agrees to inform his/her co-authors of the terms of this agreement.

6. Termination

This agreement can be terminated by the author or AJOAS upon two months’ notice where the other party has materially breached this agreement and failed to remedy such breach within a month of being given the terminating party’s notice requesting such breach to be remedied.

7. Royalties

This agreement entitles the author to no royalties or other fees. To such extent as legally permissible, the author waives his or her right to collect royalties relative to the article in respect of any use of the article by AJOAS or its sublicensee.

8. Miscellaneous

AJOAS will publish the article (or have it published) in the Journal, if the article’s editorial process is successfully completed and AJOAS or its sublicensee has become obligated to have the article published. AJOAS may conform the article to a style of punctuation, spelling, capitalization and usage that it deems appropriate. The author acknowledges that the article may be published so that it will be publicly accessible and such access will be free of charge for the readers. AJOAS will be allowed to sublicense the rights that are licensed to it under this agreement.