License
License
1. Open Access Licensing Policy
The Andalasian International Journal of Agriculture and Natural Sciences (AIJANS) supports open access to scholarly research and the responsible reuse of published scientific knowledge.
Articles published by AIJANS under its standard licensing arrangement are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.
This license allows readers, researchers, educators, institutions, and other users to access, copy, redistribute, adapt, and build upon licensed articles, including for commercial purposes, provided that the applicable license conditions are satisfied.
The official license is available at:
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).
The complete legally operative license terms are available through the Creative Commons Legal Code.
2. Permissions Granted Under CC BY-SA 4.0
Subject to the applicable license conditions, users may exercise the following permissions.
2.1 Sharing and Redistribution
Users may copy and redistribute licensed material in any medium or format.
Examples include:
- Downloading and sharing published articles.
- Distributing articles to students, researchers, and academic communities.
- Depositing articles in institutional or disciplinary repositories.
- Including articles in educational collections and research resources.
- Making licensed articles available through other lawful scholarly dissemination channels.
2.2 Adaptation and Reuse
Users may remix, transform, translate, and build upon licensed material, subject to the requirements of the license.
Permitted activities may include:
- Preparing translations.
- Creating educational adaptations.
- Reusing or adapting licensed figures and diagrams.
- Incorporating licensed material into new scholarly or educational resources.
- Conducting computational analysis of licensed publications.
Users must indicate modifications when sharing adapted material and comply with the applicable ShareAlike requirement.
2.3 Commercial Use
The CC BY-SA 4.0 license permits both commercial and noncommercial reuse.
Commercial use does not automatically require additional permission from the copyright holder when the intended use is already authorized by the license and all applicable conditions are satisfied.
Users must not imply that AIJANS, the authors, or the publisher endorse a commercial product, service, or activity merely because licensed content has been reused.
3. Attribution Requirements
Users who share licensed material must provide appropriate attribution in accordance with the license.
Attribution should include, as appropriate and where supplied:
- The name of the author or authors and any other designated attribution parties.
- The title of the original article.
- The journal title.
- A reference or link to the source publication, preferably including its DOI where available.
- Identification of the CC BY-SA 4.0 license and a link to its terms.
- An indication of whether the original material has been modified.
Attribution may be provided in a reasonable manner appropriate to the medium, means, and context of reuse.
An example attribution statement is:
Adapted from [Article Title] by [Author(s)], published in the Andalasian International Journal of Agriculture and Natural Sciences (AIJANS), [Year], [DOI or article URL]. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes were made.
This example should be adjusted to reflect the actual material and manner of reuse.
Reuse must not imply that the original authors or AIJANS endorse the user or the resulting work.
4. ShareAlike Requirement
The ShareAlike condition is a defining feature of CC BY-SA 4.0.
When a user shares adapted material derived from an AIJANS article covered by this license, the user's contributions to the adaptation must be distributed under CC BY-SA 4.0 or an applicable compatible license permitted by the Creative Commons legal terms.
The ShareAlike obligation applies to the sharing of adapted material as defined by the license. It does not automatically require every separate work included in a collection to be relicensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Users should consult the official Creative Commons license when determining whether their use constitutes an adaptation and which licensing requirements apply.
5. No Additional Legal or Technological Restrictions
Users may not impose additional legal terms or technological measures that prevent recipients from exercising rights granted under CC BY-SA 4.0.
In particular, users must not represent licensed material as subject to exclusive reuse rights that conflict with the permissions granted by the original license.
Legitimate security measures used to protect website infrastructure do not alter the copyright permissions attached to openly licensed article content.
6. Copyright Ownership
Authors retain copyright to their original scholarly articles.
AIJANS receives the authorization necessary to publish the accepted work and make the published article available under the applicable Creative Commons license.
The grant of publication rights does not transfer copyright ownership to AIJANS or its publisher.
Copyright in journal articles must be distinguished from copyright in the journal website, institutional logos, website design, software, and other independently owned materials.
Further details are provided in the journal's Copyright Notice.
7. Repository Deposit and Self-Archiving
AIJANS supports the dissemination and preservation of scholarly publications through institutional repositories, disciplinary repositories, personal academic websites, and other legitimate scholarly platforms.
Authors may share:
- Preprints.
- Accepted manuscripts.
- Final published versions of articles.
Sharing must respect the rights applicable to the particular version of the work.
For final published articles covered by CC BY-SA 4.0, redistribution may take place without additional permission from the journal, provided that the license conditions are satisfied.
Authors and repository administrators are encouraged to include complete bibliographic information and a link to the official article record or DOI.
No additional embargo is imposed by this policy on redistribution of a final published article under the journal's standard CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
8. Text and Data Mining
AIJANS recognizes the value of text and data mining for scientific discovery, bibliometric analysis, evidence synthesis, and other legitimate research activities.
Published material covered by CC BY-SA 4.0 may be used for text and data mining, including commercial applications, subject to the applicable license terms and relevant law.
When users share copies, extracts, or adapted material in circumstances covered by the license, the corresponding attribution and licensing obligations must be observed.
The journal does not require a separate copyright license for activities already authorized by CC BY-SA 4.0.
Automated access to the journal's website remains subject to legitimate technical measures intended to preserve the availability and security of its publishing infrastructure.
9. Artificial Intelligence and Automated Processing
AIJANS recognizes that published scholarly articles may be accessed and processed using computational methods, including artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.
For published articles covered by CC BY-SA 4.0, AI developers, commercial organizations, research institutions, and other users may rely on the permissions provided by that license, subject to its applicable conditions and relevant law.
The journal does not impose a separate blanket prohibition on AI-related uses of material that the applicable Creative Commons license permits.
However, the copyright and licensing implications of specific AI activities, including model training, generated outputs, and the sharing of adapted material, may depend on the nature of the activity and applicable law.
AI users remain responsible for determining whether their activities comply with the license and relevant legal requirements.
This policy does not grant access to:
- Unpublished manuscripts.
- Confidential peer-review reports.
- Restricted editorial correspondence.
- Personal information not lawfully available for the intended processing.
- Other materials outside the scope of the applicable article license.
Nothing in this section changes the journal's separate policies governing the use of AI by authors, reviewers, or editors during manuscript preparation and editorial processing.
10. Third-Party Material and License Exceptions
An article may contain material owned by third parties, including photographs, illustrations, maps, figures, datasets, or other copyrighted resources.
Where such material is excluded from the article's CC BY-SA 4.0 license, that exclusion must be clearly identified through an appropriate copyright notice, credit line, caption, or other publication information.
Users are responsible for determining whether the intended reuse of excluded material requires additional permission from the relevant rights holder.
The inclusion of third-party material in an open access article does not automatically place that material under the article's Creative Commons license.
AIJANS encourages authors to use appropriately licensed materials and to document copyright permissions before publication.
11. Published Versions and License Identification
The applicable copyright and licensing terms should be stated clearly on the article's landing page and in its published full-text versions, including HTML and PDF.
For articles published under the journal's standard licensing arrangement, the following notice may be used:
Copyright © [Year] The Author(s). This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0), which permits use, distribution, and adaptation in any medium, including for commercial purposes, provided that the original work is properly attributed and adaptations are shared under the applicable ShareAlike terms.
The notice should include a link to the official license:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
If an individual article is subject to different licensing terms, those terms must be identified accurately and consistently in its publication record and full text.
12. Limitations and Other Rights
Creative Commons licenses do not eliminate all legal requirements associated with the use of published materials.
Users must continue to respect applicable laws and rights concerning matters such as privacy, publicity, trademarks, and other rights that may not be granted through the article's copyright license.
Rights arising from statutory exceptions and limitations to copyright remain unaffected by the license.
Creative Commons licenses do not provide warranties concerning the accuracy, completeness, suitability, or legal status of the licensed material beyond the terms expressly stated in the applicable legal code.
Users should evaluate the suitability and reliability of scholarly content for their intended purposes.
13. Earlier Publications and Changes to Licensing
Licensing information applicable to a published article should accurately reflect the terms under which that article was made available.
AIJANS will not represent a change in the journal's general licensing policy as automatically replacing the terms applicable to every previously published article.
If licensing arrangements differ between individual articles or publication periods, the applicable license must be identified in the relevant article record.
Permissions already validly granted under a Creative Commons license cannot be withdrawn merely by removing or changing the journal's general policy statement.
14. Questions and Permission Requests
Users who are uncertain whether their intended use is covered by CC BY-SA 4.0 should consult the official Creative Commons legal terms.
Where additional permission is required for material outside the scope of the license, requests should be directed to the relevant copyright holder.
Questions concerning AIJANS copyright and licensing policies may be sent to:
AIJANS Editorial Office
Andalasian International Journal of Agriculture and Natural Sciences
Lembaga Penelitian dan Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat (LPPM)
Universitas Andalas
Kampus Limau Manis, Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia
Email: aijans@unand.ac.id