The Journal of Resource Valorization & Circular Systems (JRVCS) is committed to promoting the broad dissemination of scholarly research while protecting the intellectual property rights of authors. The journal operates under an open-access publishing model that enables unrestricted access to published research while ensuring appropriate recognition of authorship and compliance with international copyright standards.
Copyright
Authors publishing in JRVCS retain full copyright of their work. Upon acceptance for publication, authors grant the Journal of Resource Valorization & Circular Systems and its publisher, Hala Publishing Group (Doha, Qatar), a non-exclusive license to publish, reproduce, archive, distribute, and make the article permanently available in print and electronic formats.
Authors remain free to:
- Retain ownership of the copyright of their published work.
- Share and distribute the published article through personal websites, institutional repositories, and non-commercial scholarly platforms.
- Reuse the content in future books, lectures, theses, or other scholarly works with appropriate acknowledgement of the original publication in JRVCS.
- Comply with institutional, governmental, or funding agency open-access requirements.
License
All articles published in JRVCS are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Under this license, users may:
- Read, download, copy, print, and share published articles without restriction.
- Redistribute the work in any medium or format for non-commercial purposes.
- Adapt, remix, transform, and build upon the material for non-commercial use, provided that:
- Appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and the journal.
- A link to the CC BY-NC 4.0 license is provided.
- Any modifications made are clearly indicated.
Commercial use of published material is not permitted without prior written permission from the copyright holder.
Author Rights
Authors retain the right to:
- Reuse figures, tables, and other content from their published articles.
- Deposit the published version of their manuscript in institutional or subject repositories.
- Share their work through academic networking platforms and personal websites for non-commercial purposes.
- Use the published article for teaching, educational activities, and future scholarly work with appropriate citation.
Third-Party Material
Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any third-party copyrighted material included in their manuscript. Such permission must be obtained before submission, and appropriate acknowledgements must accompany all reproduced material.
Licensing Compliance
By submitting a manuscript to JRVCS, authors confirm that they own the copyright to the submitted work or have obtained all necessary permissions for any copyrighted material included within the manuscript. Upon acceptance, authors agree to publish their work under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) while retaining full copyright ownership.
This policy ensures the widest possible dissemination of published research while protecting authors' intellectual property rights and supporting responsible, ethical, and sustainable open-access scholarly publishing.