Copyright & Licensing
Artificial Intelligence Tools in Software and Data Engineering (AITSDE) is a fully open-access journal. We believe in the free and immediate exchange of knowledge to foster global innovation in AI and software engineering.
- Licensing Terms
All articles published in AITSDE are licensed under the creative commons attribution 4.0 international license (CC BY 4.0)
Under this license, others are permitted to:
- Share: Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
- Adapt: Remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially
Condition: Users must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. This must be done in a reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the journal or the authors endorse the use.
Copyright and Author Rights
Unlike traditional publishing models, AITSDE allows authors to retain full ownership of their work.
- Retention of Copyright: Authors retain the copyright of their articles without restrictions
- Publishing Rights: Authors grant AITSDE a non-exclusive license to publish the article as the original publisher and to identify itself as the original source.
- Self Archiving: Authors are encouraged to deposit the published version of their articles in institutional or subject based repositories immediately upon publication.
Open Access Statement
This is an open-access journal, which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or their institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the artic1les, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition of open access.
Archiving Policy
Artificial Intelligence Tools in Software and Data Engineering (AITSDE) is committed to the long-term preservation of its digital content. We understand that the stability of the scientific record is essential for researchers, libraries, and the global academic community.
- Digital Preservation Strategy
To ensure that all published articles remain permanently accessible, even in the event that the journal ceases publication, AITSDE employs the following archiving strategies:
- Self-Archiving (Green Open Access): AITSDE encourages authors to self-archive the "Version of Record" (final published PDF) in their institutional repositories, personal websites, and subject-based repositories (such as arXiv or HAL) immediately upon publication.
- Internal Redundancy: All journal content is backed up on multiple secure servers managed by the publisher to prevent data loss.
- Long-term Preservation Services
We are in the process of integrating with international preservation services to ensure a permanent digital shadow of our repository. Our policy aligns with the standards of:
- : Lockss/Clockss:A distributed archiving system that ensures the journal's content can be restored if the original server becomes unavailable.
- National Library Archives: We cooperate with national digital preservation initiatives to deposit electronic copies of every issue.
- 3. Metadata and OAI-PMH
AITSDE supports the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting), allowing our metadata to be harvested by global indexing services and library discovery tools, ensuring maximum findability and permanent record-keeping.