Data Archiving and Permissions

Policies for long-term preservation, research data sharing, and reuse permissions for nanotechnology research published in our journal.

Preservation and Access Policies

The Journal of Advances in Nanotechnology is committed to long-term preservation of published research and underlying experimental data supporting published findings. Our comprehensive archiving policies ensure that nanotechnology discoveries remain permanently accessible to future researchers, practitioners, and students while respecting intellectual property considerations and reuse requirements.

We strongly encourage open data practices that enhance research reproducibility, enable validation of published findings, and accelerate scientific progress in nanoscience and related fields by allowing researchers to build upon existing work efficiently.

Digital Preservation Infrastructure

All published content is preserved through multiple redundant archiving systems strategically distributed across independent organizations to ensure permanent availability regardless of any single point of failure. Our comprehensive preservation strategy protects against technological obsolescence, organizational changes, and infrastructure disruptions, guaranteeing that valuable nanotechnology research remains accessible for decades to come.

Archiving Partner Networks

CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) dark archive
LOCKSS (Stanford University Libraries) network
Portico digital preservation service
Internet Archive Wayback Machine integration
Institutional repository deposits facilitated
National library archiving programs participation

Content Preserved

Complete article text in HTML and PDF formats
All figures, graphs, and tables
Supplementary materials and data files
Metadata records and DOI information
Version history and correction records
Citation links and reference data

Research Data Sharing Requirements

Authors must include a data availability statement in all published manuscripts describing how underlying research data supporting the conclusions can be accessed by readers and other researchers. We strongly encourage deposition of datasets in appropriate public repositories to support reproducibility of experimental findings, enable independent validation of conclusions, and allow secondary analysis and meta-studies by other researchers in the nanotechnology community.

Recommended data repositories: Figshare, Zenodo, Dryad, Materials Data Facility, NIST Materials Data Repository, Mendeley Data, Harvard Dataverse, or discipline-specific databases such as the Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory data resources, Materials Project, or AFLOW databases for computational materials data.

Data should be deposited in FAIR-compliant repositories (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) with appropriate metadata enabling discovery and reuse. Authors should use persistent identifiers such as DOIs for deposited datasets and cite these identifiers in the data availability statement within the published manuscript.

Self-Archiving and Author Rights

Authors retain the right to deposit their published work in institutional repositories, subject repositories, personal websites, and other platforms. Our open access model under Creative Commons licensing allows authors to share the final published version immediately upon publication without any embargo periods restricting access.

Preprint Posting Rights

Preprints welcome before and after submission
ArXiv, ChemRxiv, and other servers fully supported
Link preprint to final published version
No embargo periods on preprint servers
Update preprint with DOI upon publication

Postprint and Green OA Rights

Immediate deposit permitted upon publication
Final published PDF version sharing allowed
Institutional repository deposits encouraged
Personal and research group websites permitted
Course materials and educational use supported

Reuse Permissions Under Open Access

Articles published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license may be freely reused with appropriate attribution to the original authors and source. This includes reproduction in educational materials and textbooks, inclusion in review articles and meta-analyses, adaptation and modification for follow-up research studies, translation into other languages for global dissemination, and commercial applications subject to standard attribution requirements.

For specific permissions requests beyond standard CC BY licensing terms, questions about reuse in proprietary commercial applications, or guidance on appropriate attribution formatting, contact our editorial office for assistance. We aim to facilitate broad reuse while ensuring original authors receive appropriate recognition for their contributions.