Copyright and Licensing

All articles published in JCEST are fully Open Access. Authors retain the copyright to their work while granting the Journal of Civil Engineering, Science and Technology the right of first publication and designating Universiti Malaysia Sarawak Publisher as the original publisher. All articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Authors are free to use their work for educational purposes (such as presentations, dissertations, and lecture notes) and for further dissemination (such as on personal and institutional websites or in open-access repositories) without requiring permission from Universiti Malaysia Sarawak Publisher, provided that the original publication in JCEST is properly cited.

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Council of Science Editors (2018). White Paper on Publication Ethics. Available at: https://www.councilscienceeditors.org/resource-library/editorial-policies/white-paper-on-publication-ethics/

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PLoS Medicine. Ethical Publishing Practice. Available at: http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/s/ethical-publishing-practice

Science Journals: editorial policies. Available at: http://www.sciencemag.org/authors/science-journals-editorial-policies