Iranian Journal of Wood and Paper Research (IJWPR) is an open access journal as the official publication of the Forests and Rangelands Research Institute of Wood and Paper Industries. All research articles published by IJWPR are available for free reading, downloading and sharing. Published articles are published through the official journal website. Authors reserve the rights to their materials, which become available online and publicly available after acceptance by the journal:

  1) Authors retain copyright with which the work simultaneously licensed under CC BY through Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) that allows to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon the published work in this journal, even commercially, as long as they credit this journal for the original creation.

 2) Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

 3) Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).