Author Rights
RESM is a fully Gold Open Access journal. All articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY NC), which permits unrestricted academic use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their personal website) at any stage of the publication process (Pre-print, Post-print, or Publisher’s PDF) with no embargo period.
Authors publishing in the Research on Engineering Structures and Materials (RESM) retain the following rights:
1. Proprietary Rights
Authors retain all proprietary rights other than copyright, such as patent rights.
2. Use on Author or Employer Websites
Authors have the right to use the RESM-prepared version of the article, without revision or modification, on their personal or employer’s website.
3. Educational and Research Use
Authors may make copies of all or part of the article, including the RESM-prepared version, without revision or modification, for personal, educational, or research purposes. If the RESM-prepared version is used in a publication or product that charges a fee, written permission from RESM must be obtained.
4. Creation of Derivative Works
Authors may create derivative works from the article, provided the following conditions are met:
- At least one author of the derived work is an author of the original article.
- The derivative work contains at least 30% new material not covered by RESM copyright.
- The derivative work includes no more than 50% of the original article’s text (including equations).
If these conditions are satisfied, copyright in the derivative work rests with its authors. If the conditions are not met, explicit permission from RESM must be obtained. These rights do not limit RESM (or its successors and assigns) from exercising its own copyright in the original article.
All copies or derivatives must include appropriate bibliographic citations and a notice of RESM’s copyright.
These rights ensure authors can leverage their work while maintaining RESM’s commitment to ethical and rigorous academic publishing.
