Open Access License

The aim of Forest Chemicals Review is to provide the best choice of user license options which define how readers can reuse open access articles published on our platforms.

Forest Chemicals Review Policy:

  1. Offer a choice between a commercial and a noncommercial Creative Commons license for gold open access articles in our proprietary titles. The choice is dependent on the journal in which the author chooses to publish. Please refer to the journal’s homepage for specific details.
  2. Use the user license for our open archive content
  3. Forest Chemicals Review support green open access and accepted manuscripts can be self -archived following our sharing guidelines and are required to attach a CC-BY-NC-ND license.

Choosing a License
Once selected, Creative Commons user licenses are non-revocable. Forest Chemicals Review recommend author(s) check if their funding body requires a specific license. See the Creative Commons website for more details about what to consider before choosing a user license.

User license Read, print and download Redistribute or republish the article (e.g. display in a repository) Translate the article Download for text and data mining purposes Reuse portions or extracts from the article in other works Sell or re-use for commercial purposes
CC BY 4.0 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Yes Yes Yes, For private use only and not for distribution Yes Yes No
User License Yes No Yes Yes No No

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