Author Rights

Author Rights

Authors who publish in Creative Engineering retain the copyright to their work.

By submitting and publishing articles in Creative Engineering, authors grant the journal the right to first publication, as well as a non-exclusive right to publish, distribute, and archive their work as part of the journal.

Authors are free to:

Share their published articles for non-commercial purposes, subject to the journal's license terms.

Store preprints, accepted manuscripts, and published versions of articles in institutional repositories, subject repositories, personal websites, or other platforms of their choice, provided that the original publication from Creative Engineering is properly cited.

Reuse their own content in future works, such as books, reviews, or textbooks, with proper attribution to the original publication.

All articles published in Creative Engineering are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). This license allows for non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any media, provided that the original work is properly cited.

This policy ensures that authors retain ownership of their work while enabling widespread dissemination under an open access publishing model.