Copyright and Licensing

Authors who publish in Current Biochemistry keep the copyright of their work. All articles are published open access under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

In brief. Authors keep copyright · CC BY-NC 4.0 · The journal holds the right of first publication · Free non-commercial reuse with attribution · No copyright transfer.

1. Copyright

  • Authors keep the copyright of their articles without restrictions. No transfer of copyright to the journal or the publisher is required.
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  • Authors may enter into separate, non-exclusive arrangements for distributing the published version, for example by depositing it in a repository or publishing it in a book, provided that the original publication in Current Biochemistry is acknowledged.
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2. License

Under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license, anyone may use the articles as follows:

Anyone may

  • Share: copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
  • Adapt: remix, transform, and build upon the material.

Provided that

  • Attribution is given: the authors, title, journal, DOI, and license are cited, and any changes are indicated.
  • Non-commercial: the material is not used for commercial purposes.

The license statement and DOI appear on the article's landing page [and, from Volume X Issue X (Month Year), on the first page of every article].

3. Commercial Use and Permissions

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4. Third-Party Material

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5. Author Responsibilities

By submitting a manuscript, authors confirm that:

  • the work is original, has not been published elsewhere, and is not under consideration by another journal;
  • they have the right to grant the license above, including on behalf of all co-authors;
  • permission has been obtained for any third-party material included in the article.

6. How to Cite and Reuse

Example attribution: [Authors] ([Year]). [Article title]. Current Biochemistry, [Volume]([Issue]), [pages]. https://doi.org/[DOI prefix]/[article ID]. Licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. [Indicate any changes made.]

See also the Open Access Policy and Electronic Filing.