Copyright and License Policy

Authors who publish with the Journal of Green Science and Technology (JGST) retain the copyright of their published work.

Authors grant JGST the right of first publication of the article. JGST does not require authors to transfer copyright to the journal.

Under the journal's current licensing policy, articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, users are free to:

• Share - copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format; and
• Adapt - remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercial purposes.

These permissions are granted provided that users comply with the following conditions:

Attribution
Appropriate credit must be given to the author(s), the original publication in JGST must be acknowledged, a link to the license must be provided, and any changes made to the material must be indicated.

ShareAlike
If the material is remixed, transformed, or built upon, the resulting work must be distributed under the same license as the original.

Authors may enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the published version of their work, for example by depositing it in an institutional repository, including it in a book, or sharing it through an academic website, provided that its initial publication in JGST is properly acknowledged.

Historical Licensing

JGST respects the licensing terms under which previously published articles were originally released.

The license applicable to a previously published article is the Creative Commons license or other licensing information recorded on the article's official metadata and publication record at the time of publication.

The journal's current CC BY-SA 4.0 policy does not retroactively replace or alter the licensing terms of previously published articles.

Therefore, readers and users should refer to the license displayed on the individual article page when using material from historical issues.

Where inconsistencies are identified between historical article metadata and general journal policy text, JGST will preserve the licensing rights originally granted for the article and may clarify the publication record without retroactively restricting or expanding the rights granted at the time of publication.

Current License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/