1. Open Access Statement

Iron Steel Vanadium Titanium flipped to an open access journal in 2024. All articles published in the journal from the Issue 1, 2024 onwards are open access works, which are made available on the journal's official website immediately after publication and are permanently available to all users free of charge.

In addition, articles published in the journal before 2024 are also turned to open access, available to all users free of charge on the journal's official website.

2. Open Access License

All open access articles in this journal use the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license, which allows all users to copy, distribute, and use the articles in any media and format, provided that they follow the terms of the license, including:

When copying and distributing the relevant articles, users must provide appropriate attribution, include a link to the license, and indicate if any changes have been made to the original article. Attribution may be done in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the journal endorses the user or their use. The articles cannot be used for commercial purposes. If the articles are remixed, transformed, or built upon, the modified articles cannot be distributed. For more detailed information on this license, please visit:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

3. Article Copyright

Authors who publish articles in this journal are required to sign a Copyright Transfer Agreement (the template is available on the Copyright Transfer Agreement page), agreeing to transfer the full copyright of the article (including all figures, tables, abstracts, and any other content extractable from the article) to the editorial department of Iron Steel Vanadium Titanium. The transferred rights include, but are not limited to, the rights of reproduction, distribution, information network dissemination, broadcasting, performance, translation, compilation, adaptation, and other related rights. The copyright transfer is effective worldwide.

Once an article is published in this journal, the editorial department will become the copyright holder, and the author(s) of this article will have the right to use it under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.

4. Author Self-Archiving

Authors are allowed to store all versions of their articles in an institutional or other repository of their choice. However, it should be indicated in the repository that the article was originally published in Iron Steel Vanadium Titanium.