After Acceptance

Once a manuscript has been accepted for publication in IJTIMES, the corresponding author receives an acceptance email and the manuscript enters the production stage. This page describes what authors can expect at each stage, and sets out the journal's policies on copyright, licensing, sharing, and post-publication corrections.

⚙ 1. Production Workflow

Copyediting

The accepted manuscript is copyedited for grammar, style, consistency, and journal house style. The Proofing Editor may contact the corresponding author with queries during this stage.

Typesetting

The manuscript is typeset in the IJTIMES article format, producing a final layout in PDF ready for author proofing.

Author Proofs

The corresponding author receives a typeset proof by email for review. Authors are asked to check for typesetting errors and to respond within five working days. The purpose of the proof is to check typesetting, editing, completeness, and correctness — including text, tables, and figures. Authors should verify that author names, affiliations, and the corresponding author's contact details are correct. Substantive content changes are not normally accepted at this stage; corrections should be limited to typographic errors and factual inaccuracies. Significant changes to article content at the proofing stage will only be considered with prior approval of the Editor.

web-link Registration

The article is assigned a web-link registered with online repositories. The web-link provides a permanent, citable link to the published article and is included in the published PDF and on the article's web page.

Online Publication

The article is published in the next available issue. Once published, all articles are immediately and permanently free to read, download, and share under the applicable Creative Commons licence.

Indexing

Article metadata is submitted to indexing partners — including Google Scholar, CrossRef, and other abstracting databases — in accordance with each partner's harvesting schedule.

© 2. Copyright and Licensing in the Published Article

The published version of your article will carry a copyright and licensing statement in the standard form:

© [year of publication] The Author(s). This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence.

You retain copyright in your work; the licence governs how readers may reuse the published article. Full terms are on the Open Access Licences page.

We advise you to read IJTIMES's policies related to copyright to learn more about your rights, as well as those of your employer or institution, for open access articles.

📑 3. Publishing Agreement

Authors will be asked to complete a publishing agreement after acceptance. The corresponding author will receive a link to the online agreement by email. The agreement covers copyright, licensing, and the terms under which your article will be made available to readers.

We advise you to read IJTIMES's policies related to copyright to learn more about our copyright policies and your rights, as well as those of your employer or institution, for open access articles.

✍ 4. Copyright Transfer

Upon acceptance of an article, the corresponding author must submit a signed Copyright Transfer Agreement to IJTIMES, with written consent from all co-authors. This agreement transfers the copyright of the manuscript to IJTIMES while granting the author(s) certain retained rights.

Authors retain the right to:

Use the article for teaching purposes at their institution.
Include the article in a thesis or dissertation.
Post the accepted manuscript (post-print) in an institutional or personal repository after publication, with a link to the published version.
Share the published article with colleagues for non-commercial research and educational purposes.

Please upload your signed copyright form via the document submission portal.

🔐 5. Open Access

IJTIMES is a fully open access journal. All published articles are immediately and permanently free for everyone to read, download, and share under the applicable Creative Commons licence. There are no subscription barriers for readers.

For further information about open access publishing with IJTIMES, please refer to our Open Access Licences page or contact the editorial office at editor.ijtimes@gmail.com.

🚫 6. Permission for Copyrighted Works

If excerpts from other copyrighted works — such as figures, tables, or lengthy text passages — are included in your article, you must:

Obtain written permission from the copyright owner(s) before submission.
Credit the original source clearly within your article, including the title, author(s), publication, publisher, and year.
Include a copy of the permission letter when uploading your manuscript documents.

It is the author's sole responsibility to secure any required permissions prior to publication. IJTIMES accepts no liability for any copyright infringement arising from the use of third-party material without proper authorisation.

📢 7. Promoting Your Published Article

IJTIMES encourages authors to share and promote their published articles to give additional visibility to their work and to contribute to the wider scientific community. Permitted activities include:

Posting the published version on personal, institutional, or laboratory websites, subject to the CC BY-NC 4.0 licence.
Sharing on academic networking platforms such as ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and ORCID.
Depositing the published version in institutional or subject repositories immediately upon publication.
Sharing the article link on social media and in professional networks.

When sharing, please always include a link to the official published version via the article's web-link to ensure readers access the version of record.

🔄 8. Corrections After Publication

If you discover an error in your published article, contact the Editor-in-Chief at editor.ijtimes@gmail.com as soon as possible. The journal handles corrections in line with COPE guidance:

Minor errors are addressed through a published correction notice linked to the original article.
Substantive errors that affect the conclusions may require an erratum, a corrigendum, or in rare cases a retraction.

Full procedures are described on the Publication Ethics page and the Corrections & Retractions page.

🌐 9. Reuse of Your Article

You retain copyright in your article, which is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence. You and others may reuse the article freely for non-commercial purposes with attribution. Full terms are on the Open Access Licences page.