About the Journal
AUT Journal of Mechanical Engineering is an peer-reviewed journal published by Amirkabir University of Technology. The journal is published under our open access policy, published articles are archived online on our website and can be accessed for free. The journal welcomes original research articles, review papers, case studies and communications from scholars around the world.
Open Access policy
AUT Journal of Mechanical Engineering is a libre green open access journal. This policy facilitates the widest possible dissemination of your work with no fees. The open access material on our website is subject to the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0) license. Authors can self-archive their articles or post a free copy of their article on a repository or website after it’s been made available on our website provided that appropriate credit is given to the formal publication on our website using the uniquely assigned DOI of the article.
Author-Publisher Agreement
Once a manuscript has been accepted for publication by the journal, authors will be requested to fill and sign the Author-Publisher Agreement to grant publisher rights to the journal. These rights include the exclusive right to publish and distribute the accepted article in all forms and media and the authority to enforce the rights in the article, on behalf of an author, against third parties, in cases of plagiarism or copyright infringement.
Author rights
Authors transfer copyright to the journal after signing the Author-Publisher Agreement, but they retain the rights to:
Copyright and Originality
In order for AJME to publish and disseminate research papers, we need publishing rights. This is determined by a publishing agreement between the author and AJME. This agreement deals with the transfer or license of the copyright to AJME and authors retain significant rights to use and share their own published papers. AJME supports the need for authors to share, disseminate and maximize the impact of their research.
For the AJME journal the following steps apply:
1- Authors download, fill up and sign the following two forms:
Statement of Originality
Publication Agreement and Assignment of Copyright
where they will have copyright but grant broad publishing and distribution rights to the AJME, including the right to publish the paper on AJME's website.
2- The AJME makes the paper available online when it is finally accepted after the peer-review process.
Article Processing Charges
AUT Journal of Mechanical Engineering doesn't have any submission and article processing charges (APCs).
The history of Amirkabir journals can be divided into three periods:
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