Copyright and Licensing

The Institute for Environmental Nanotechnology (IENT) is an open-access journal that provides immediate and free access to all published articles. Users are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to the full texts of articles, and use them for any lawful purpose without seeking prior permission from the publisher or the author.

IENT’s editorial policies are designed to help authors understand open-access licensing and to ensure compliance with the open-access requirements of academic institutions, government bodies, and funding agencies.

Authors publishing with IENT retain the copyright to their research work and grant the journal the right of first publication.

All articles published in IENT are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction, and adaptation of the work in any medium, including commercial use, provided that the original author(s) and the source are properly credited.

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