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Copyright

Copyright to all published materials is owned by the Korean Welding and Joining Society (KWJS). The corresponding author should agree to the copyright transfer during the submission process. The Editorial Board takes it granted that the co-authors also accept the copyright transfer per the acceptance by the corresponding author, who has a responsibility of submitting the copyright transfer agreement to the publisher.

Open access policy

JWJ is an open access article distributed under the terms of the creative commons attribution non-commercial license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
All contents of the journal are available immediately upon publication without embargo period for free.

Archiving policy

This is accessible without barrier from National Library of Korea (http://nl.go.kr) in the event a journal is no longer published.
According to the deposit policy (self-archiving policy) of Korea Journal Copyright Information (https://copyright.oak.go.kr/search/copyInfo.do?jourCopySeq=1659), Authors cannot archive pre-print, but they can archive post-print.

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