Copyright, Permission and Licensing Information
Copyright and permission
Copyright on any open access article published by the IJEMS is retained by the author(s). Authors grant permission to the IJOBSMS to publish the article and identify himself as the original publisher. The authors also have the right to retain patent, trademark and other intellectual property rights (including research data), and also to proper attribution and credit for the published work.
Publishers are empowered to act on behalf of the author through a copyright transfer or exclusive license to copy, publish, and adapt works, whilst protecting their integrity. In this way, publishers are empowered to do various things on behalf of the author, for example, to ensure that the article is widely disseminated, that all requests for the rights to re-use content and provision of permissions are answered efficiently, and to ensure that the original is correctly attributed.
Copyright on any open access article published by the IJOBSMS is retained by the author(s). Authors grant permission to the IJOBSMS to publish the article and identify himself as the original publisher. The authors also have the right to retain patent, trademark and other intellectual property rights (including research data), and also to proper attribution and credit for the published work.
Publishers are empowered to take on the author's behalf through a transfer of copyright and exclusive license to edit, print, and adapt works, while protecting their reputation. Through this way, publisher is encouraged to do different things on behalf of the author, for example to ensure that the article is widely disseminated, that all demands for rights to reuse material and permissions are replied to effectively, and to ensure that the original is properly credited.
Authors have to submit the duly signed, scanned copy of copyright agreement form by email to editor@ijems.net; at the time or within 7 days of submission of article. It is an integral part of publication process, failure of which may decline the publication of article despite fulfilling all other requirements. Authors may download the Copyright Format.
Licencing information
Pure Open Access Journals like International Journal of Medical Research and Review allows the author to retain the copyright in their articles. Articles are instead made available under a Creative Commons license (usually Attribution-Only, or CC-BY) to allow others to freely access, copy and use research provided the author is correctly attributed.
International Journal of Medical Research and Review follows the Creative Commons CC-BY license (Attribution). It means Authors can use, reuse and build upon the material published in the journal but only for non-commercial purposes'. Every article published in the Journal clearly mentioned licencing terms between author/authors & Publisher (Siddharth Health Research and Social Welfare Society) as the logo of Creative Commons CC-BY license (Attribution) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
In brief following are Copyright & licensing information IJOBSMS follows :
- License
All articles published in International Journal of Medical Research & Review are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- Author’s Warranties
The author warrants that the article is original, written by stated author(s), has not been published before, contains no unlawful statements, does not infringe the rights of others, is subject to copyright that is vested exclusively in the author and free of any third-party rights, and that any necessary written permissions to quote from other sources have been obtained by the author(s).
- User Rights
International Journal of Health and Clinical Research spirit is to disseminate articles published as free as possible. Under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License., which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.
- Rights of Authors
Authors retain the following rights:
- Copyright, and other proprietary rights relating to the article, such as patent rights,
- The right to use the substance of the article in own future works, including lectures and books,
- The right to reproduce the article for own purposes,
- The right to self-archive the article,
- The right to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the article's published version (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in International Journal of Health and Clinical Research.
- Co-Authorship
If other authors jointly prepared the article, Corresponding author of the paper warrants that all co-authors have authorized him/her.
