The Journal of Researches in Mechanics of Agricultural Machinery states its policies on access, reuse, preservation, and publication openly. This page explains the terms that apply to published articles and the journal’s publishing services. The responsibilities of authors, reviewers, and editors are described in the Publication Ethics policy.
The journal is fully open access. The full text of every article is available immediately upon publication, without payment, subscription, or mandatory registration to read. Readers may download and reuse articles in accordance with the license attached to each article.
Authors retain the copyright and full publishing rights to their articles without restriction. Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
This license allows others to share, distribute, translate, adapt, and reuse the work in any medium, including for commercial purposes, provided they credit the authors and source, link to the license, and indicate any changes made.
To preserve its publication record and provide continued access to its scholarly content, the journal makes the full text of published articles available through its online archive. Bibliographic information and available copies of its published works can also be accessed through the scholarly and national services listed below.
Authors may deposit the preprint, accepted manuscript, and published Version of Record of their articles in institutional or subject repositories or on their personal websites without an embargo. If a preprint was publicly available before submission, the corresponding author should disclose this and provide its link when submitting the manuscript.
After publication, authors are encouraged to add the article’s DOI and a link to its journal page to repository records so readers can identify the definitive published version. Deposited Versions of Record should retain the authors’ names, publication details, and CC BY 4.0 license information.
The journal charges authors no fees for submission, initial screening, peer review, editorial processing, typesetting, or publication. There are no article processing charges (APCs).
Names, affiliations, email addresses, ORCID iDs, and other details collected during submission and peer review are used to manage editorial and publishing activities. Author information needed to identify and cite published work appears in articles and their metadata. Reviewer identities remain confidential under the journal’s double-anonymous peer review process.
Access to unpublished manuscripts and non-public user information is limited to those responsible for handling them. The journal does not use this information for commercial advertising.
The journal does not accept paid advertisements, promotional sponsored content, or commercial notices on its website or in published articles. Editorial decisions are made independently of advertising interests.
