Open Access & Copyright Policy

1. Open Access Policy

ETII provides immediate open access to its published scholarly content. Readers may access published articles online without requiring a personal or institutional subscription.

The journal considers broad public access to scholarly research an important mechanism for accelerating scientific communication, technological development, interdisciplinary collaboration, education, innovation, and the translation of research into practice.

Published articles are made openly accessible from the time of publication. ETII does not impose a subscription-based access barrier or a post-publication embargo period on its open-access articles.

2. Creative Commons License

Unless otherwise stated for specific material, articles published in ETII are licensed under the:

The CC BY 4.0 license permits users to share, copy, redistribute, adapt, remix, transform, and build upon the published material for any lawful purpose, including commercial purposes, provided that appropriate attribution is given.

3. Permitted Reuse

Subject to the terms of the applicable license, users may:

• read and download published articles;
• copy and redistribute articles in any medium or format;
• share published articles with students, colleagues, researchers, or other readers;
• include appropriately attributed material in educational resources;
• deposit copies in institutional or subject repositories;
• translate published material;
• adapt or transform content;
• build upon the published work;
• use material in scholarly reviews and derivative research;
• reuse material in commercial and non-commercial contexts; and
• conduct machine-assisted analysis, text mining, or data mining where otherwise lawful.

4. Attribution Requirements

Reuse under CC BY 4.0 requires appropriate credit to the original work.

Where reasonably practicable, attribution should identify:

• the author or authors;
• the title of the article;
• Emerging Technologies in Intelligent Industry as the publication source;
• the DOI or other persistent link to the original article;
• the applicable CC BY 4.0 license; and
• whether material has been modified or adapted.

Attribution must not imply that the authors, journal, publisher, editors, or affiliated institutions endorse a reuse, adaptation, product, organization, or conclusion unless such endorsement has been explicitly provided.

5. Copyright Ownership

Authors retain copyright in articles published by ETII unless a different arrangement is required by applicable law, employment conditions, institutional policy, funding requirements, or another legitimate rights arrangement.

Publication in ETII does not normally require authors to transfer full copyright ownership to the journal or publisher.

By agreeing to publication, authors grant ETII and its publisher the rights necessary to publish, identify, distribute, archive, preserve, index, display, and communicate the scholarly work as the journal's version of record.

6. Rights Granted to the Journal and Publisher

Authors grant ETII and the publisher a non-exclusive right to publish the accepted work and to identify ETII as the venue of first formal journal publication.

This includes the rights reasonably necessary to:

• publish the article online;
• produce and distribute the version of record;
• assign and register persistent identifiers such as DOI where applicable;
• create article metadata;
• distribute metadata to indexing, discovery, library, archiving, and scholarly infrastructure services;
• preserve and archive the scholarly record;
• make technical and production-format conversions;
• correct publication metadata where necessary; and
• maintain long-term accessibility of published content.

7. Author Reuse Rights

Because authors retain copyright and articles are published under CC BY 4.0, authors may normally reuse their own published material without seeking additional permission from ETII, provided that the original publication is appropriately identified.

Authors may, for example:

• use the article in teaching and academic presentations;
• include portions of the work in a thesis or dissertation;
• reuse material in a subsequent book or scholarly work;
• share the published article with colleagues;
• place the article on a personal or institutional academic webpage;
• deposit the article in an institutional repository;
• deposit the article in a disciplinary repository; and
• distribute the article for legitimate scholarly and professional purposes.

8. Self-Archiving Policy

ETII supports author self-archiving.

Authors may deposit appropriate versions of their manuscripts in:

• institutional repositories;
• disciplinary or subject repositories;
• personal academic webpages;
• funding-agency repositories;
• university research information systems; and
• other legitimate scholarly repositories.

The published version of record should, where possible, include the complete citation and DOI or persistent link to the ETII publication.

ETII does not impose an embargo period on the lawful self-archiving of openly published ETII articles.

9. Manuscript Versions

For clarity, scholarly manuscripts may exist in several versions, including:

• Author's Original Manuscript / Preprint: the version before formal peer review;
• Accepted Manuscript: the author-created version incorporating accepted peer-review revisions but before final journal production; and
• Version of Record: the final article formally published by ETII.

Where authors distribute earlier manuscript versions after publication, they are encouraged to update the record with a citation and link to the final ETII Version of Record.

10. Preprints

The existence of a legitimate preprint does not automatically prevent a manuscript from being considered by ETII.

Authors should disclose relevant preprints during submission where appropriate. After formal publication, authors are encouraged to update the preprint record with the complete citation and DOI of the ETII article.

11. Third-Party Copyrighted Material

The CC BY 4.0 license applying to an ETII article does not automatically extend to third-party material included in the article when that material is separately identified as subject to different copyright or licensing terms.

Examples may include:

• previously published figures;
• photographs owned by third parties;
• maps;
• commercial images;
• software screenshots;
• proprietary datasets;
• standards or technical specifications;
• extended quotations; or
• other copyrighted materials reproduced from external sources.

Where such material is not covered by the article's open license, users may need additional permission from the relevant copyright holder before reuse.

12. Author Responsibility for Permissions

Authors are responsible for ensuring that submitted manuscripts do not improperly reproduce copyrighted material belonging to other parties.

Where permission is required, authors should obtain the necessary rights before publication and retain documentary evidence of those permissions.

Permission documentation may be requested during editorial review or production.

13. Figures, Tables, and Adapted Materials

Authors should clearly identify the origin of figures, tables, diagrams, photographs, or other material that is reproduced or adapted from previously published sources.

Captions should state the relevant attribution or reuse status where necessary. Authors should not assume that citing a source alone is always sufficient to obtain permission for copyrighted reuse.

14. Data, Software, and Code

The copyright or licensing status of data, software, source code, models, and other research outputs may differ from the license governing the journal article itself.

Authors should clearly identify applicable licenses, access conditions, or restrictions for separate datasets, software packages, repositories, and supplementary resources.

Publication of an article under CC BY 4.0 should not be interpreted as automatically changing the legal license applicable to independently hosted software, datasets, databases, or third-party resources.

15. Text and Data Mining

ETII supports legitimate computational use of openly licensed scholarly content, including text and data mining, machine reading, information extraction, bibliometric analysis, and other automated research methods, subject to applicable law, proper attribution, technical access conditions, and any separate rights attached to third-party materials.

Automated use must not misrepresent the source, alter attribution, circumvent legitimate security controls, or imply journal endorsement of downstream applications.

16. Article Metadata

Bibliographic metadata associated with ETII publications may be disseminated to scholarly infrastructure and discovery services to support indexing, citation linking, library discovery, preservation, research assessment, and scholarly communication.

Metadata may include information such as:

• article title;
• author names;
• affiliations;
• ORCID identifiers;
• abstract;
• keywords;
• references;
• publication dates;
• DOI and other identifiers;
• license information; and
• funding information where supplied.

17. Version of Record

The formally published ETII article constitutes the journal's Version of Record. Readers and authors are encouraged to cite the Version of Record using its complete bibliographic citation and DOI whenever available.

Corrections, retractions, updates, or other post-publication notices associated with the scholarly record should be read together with the Version of Record.

18. Reuse without Additional Permission

When material is clearly covered by the article's CC BY 4.0 license and the proposed reuse complies with the terms of that license, separate permission from ETII or INATGI is generally not required.

Users remain responsible for determining whether third-party content, privacy rights, trademark rights, database rights, publicity rights, confidential information, or other legal restrictions may apply independently of copyright.

19. Integrity of the Scholarly Record

Open licensing does not permit users to misrepresent authorship, falsify findings, remove required attribution, or present modified material as though it were the unchanged original.

Adaptations should be clearly identified where changes have been made.

20. Standard Article License Notice

ETII articles may display a license statement substantially similar to the following:

21. Open Access and Publication Fees

The open-access license governing published content is distinct from any publication fee arrangements.

Information concerning article processing charges, publication fees, waivers, exemptions, or other financial arrangements is provided separately in the journal's Publication Fee Policy.

Editorial and peer-review decisions are based on scholarly considerations and are not determined by an author's ability to pay a publication fee.

22. Copyright and Rights Concerns

Individuals or organizations who believe that material published by ETII infringes copyright or another legitimate intellectual-property right may contact the journal and provide sufficient information to permit the matter to be evaluated.

The journal may temporarily restrict access to disputed material while a credible rights complaint is investigated where appropriate.

23. Corrections, Retractions, and Post-Publication Notices

Open-access status does not prevent ETII from correcting, retracting, replacing, annotating, or otherwise updating the scholarly record where justified by editorial, legal, ethical, or integrity considerations.

Where an article is corrected or retracted, the journal seeks to preserve a transparent record of the publication history rather than silently removing scholarly content, except where removal is necessary for compelling legal, privacy, security, or safety reasons.

24. Policy Updates

ETII may update this policy to reflect developments in copyright law, open-access standards, scholarly publishing infrastructure, Creative Commons licensing, or journal publishing practices.

Changes to journal policy do not ordinarily alter the license already attached to an article at the time of its publication.

Open Access & Copyright at a Glance