Copyright and Licensing Policy

The Oil Shale is committed to Open Access publishing. The journal applies the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License CC BY-NC to all its articles.

No transfer of copyright is necessary in order to publish a paper in the journal. The authors grant the journal a license to publish their work worldwide in all media and formats and identify itself as the original publisher. In addition, authors grant the journal the right to edit and make technical modifications to their work as deemed necessary by the publisher for the purposes of publication in the journal. The authors (or the holder of the authors’ copyright) retain full rights over their work, with acknowledgement of its original publication in the journal. 

By submitting manuscripts the authors agree that the article, if accepted and published, will become licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. This allows anyone to read, download, save, copy, print and redistribute the paper in any medium or format, as well as to remix, transform and build upon the paper for any purpose, as long as the original authors and source are cited. In doing so, no permission is required from the authors or the publishers. Material may not be used for commercial purposes. For full details on Creative Commons licensing conditions check Creative Commons.

If any illustration or table is reproduced from a journal article, permission should be obtained from the copyright holder. A suitable acknowledgement of any borrowed material should always be made. 

For any reuse or redistribution of an article, users should also make clear the license terms under which the work was published.