Open Access Publishing Licence

The Journal of Quantum Biosystems Engineering (“the Journal”) and its Editorial Board are committed to the widest possible dissemination of scholarly research through an Open Access publishing model.

Upon payment of the applicable Article Processing Charge (APC), accepted articles are made immediately and permanently accessible without subscription or paywall restrictions. The Open Access model is intended to facilitate scholarly communication, scientific advancement, research transparency, education, and the lawful dissemination of peer-reviewed research while preserving the integrity, authenticity, and permanence of the published scholarly record.

The definitive published article constitutes the Version of Record and shall remain the authoritative and citable version of the work.

Unless otherwise stated in the Rights and Permissions section of the individual article, articles published by the Journal are provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This is the default licence for JQBio and reads as follows:

This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and the source, a link to the Creative Commons license is provided, and any changes made are indicated. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license unless otherwise stated in a credit line accompanying the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and the intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, permission must be obtained directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Alternative licence on request. Where the Author(s) request it, an article may instead be published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY NC ND 4.0). This licence permits sharing of the unaltered work with attribution, but does not permit commercial use or the distribution of adapted material. The chosen licence must be specified and attributed to the work before publication. Any subsequent change to the stated licence requires a formal correction.

Authors remain responsible for ensuring that all content they submit is their own original work, or that they have correctly attributed any reproduced content and obtained permission for it to be shared under the same licence under which the article is published.

Readers and users must ensure that the work is credited in accordance with the licence terms whenever it is used.

JQBio remains committed to ensuring that science remains accessible with proper attribution and credit to all original authors and ideas. The Journal's publishing and licensing policy reflects this open-access model.

The Journal and its Editorial Board do not accept liability for the use of work, data, or authored content by third parties. All authors remain responsible for the content they publish.

Copyright in each published article remains vested exclusively in the Author(s). Publication in the Journal does not transfer copyright ownership to the Journal or its Editorial Board. By accepting publication, the Author(s) grant the Journal a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive licence to publish, archive, index, preserve, and distribute the Version of Record.

Users receive the rights granted by the Creative Commons licence stated on each article. Under the default CC BY 4.0 licence, these include the rights to:

• access, read, download, store and print the published work;
• share and redistribute the work in any medium, format or platform, including repositories;
• translate, quote, excerpt, annotate, produce accessible formats, or otherwise adapt the work, provided changes are clearly indicated;
• reuse the work for any purpose, including commercial purposes, with proper attribution; and
• cite, reference and link to the published work using accepted scholarly citation standards.

For articles published under CC BY NC ND 4.0, rights are limited to non-commercial sharing of the complete, unaltered work with attribution.

Any distribution, reproduction or adaptation of a published article shall:

1. give appropriate credit to the Author(s) and the source;
2. provide a link to the applicable Creative Commons licence;
3. clearly indicate whether changes were made, and not present an adapted version as the original;
4. acknowledge publication in the Journal of Quantum Biosystems Engineering; and
5. where reasonably practicable, include the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) or other permanent publication identifier.

What adaptation means. Adaptation covers legitimate reuse such as translation, excerpting or quotation, reformatting for other platforms, accessible versions, annotation in PDF readers or similar tools, teaching materials, and new work built upon the article. It does not permit anyone to pass off another person’s work as their own, alter the record of who did the research, or misrepresent what the research found.

Regardless of the licence under which an article is published, and unless expressly authorised in writing by both the Author(s) and the Journal, no person shall:

• remove, replace, alter or obscure author names, attribution, copyright notices, DOI or publication metadata;
• republish the work, in whole or substantial part, under different authorship or claim it as their own (plagiarism);
• alter the data, methods, findings or conclusions in a way that misrepresents the original research;
• redistribute altered, annotated or partial versions in a manner that could reasonably be interpreted as the published Version of Record;
• misrepresent authorship, editorial approval, peer review status or publication history;
• publish any modified version under the Journal’s name or branding;
• remove credit lines from, or reuse beyond its stated permissions, any third-party material in the article;
• where the article is published under CC BY NC ND 4.0, use it for commercial purposes or distribute adapted material;
• employ the Journal title or associated branding in a manner implying endorsement or certification where none exists.

Nothing in these Terms authorises any person to represent a modified work as the Version of Record published by the Journal.

Any public dissemination, redistribution or reproduction of a published article shall include full scholarly attribution identifying:

• the Author(s);
• the article title;
• Journal of Quantum Biosystems Engineering;
• the DOI or other permanent publication identifier where available.

Failure to provide appropriate attribution constitutes a breach of these Terms.

The integrity of the scholarly record is fundamental to scientific publishing. The Version of Record published by the Journal shall remain the sole authoritative version of the published work. No altered, corrected, translated, abbreviated or otherwise modified version may be represented as, substituted for, or cited as the Version of Record without formal publication by the Journal.

The Author(s) warrant that:

• the submitted work is original;
• they possess the necessary rights to publish the work;
• publication does not knowingly infringe the intellectual property or legal rights of any third party;
• all necessary ethical approvals, permissions and disclosures have been obtained;
• the work accurately represents the research undertaken to the best of the Author(s)’ knowledge; and
• any conflicts of interest have been fully disclosed in accordance with the Journal’s editorial policies.

The Author(s) remain solely responsible for the scientific accuracy, opinions, conclusions and interpretations contained within the published work.

Disclaimer/Publisher’s Note: The statements, opinions and data contained in all publications are solely those of the individual author(s) and contributor(s) and not of JQBio and/or the editor(s). JQBio and/or the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any impact to people or businesses resulting from any ideas, methods, technical notes or commentary referred to in the content and/or content derived from the original article.

The Journal, Editors and Editorial Board do not warrant the completeness, accuracy or fitness for any particular purpose of any published article.

Publication signifies successful completion of the Journal’s editorial and peer-review processes and does not constitute a guarantee of correctness, reproducibility or future scientific validity.

Except where liability cannot lawfully be excluded, the Journal shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential or economic loss arising from the use of, reliance upon, or interpretation of any published material.

The Author(s) agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Journal, Editors and Editorial Board against claims arising from breach of the warranties contained within this Licence or from unlawful conduct attributable to the Author(s).

All rights not expressly granted under this Licence are reserved by the Author(s).

No implied licence shall arise by publication.

The Journal reserves all rights necessary to preserve, protect and authenticate the Version of Record and the integrity of the Journal’s published archive.

These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws specified within the Journal’s Publishing Agreement. Any dispute arising from these Terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts identified therein unless otherwise required by applicable law.