Open Access Policy

The Journal of Medical Sciences (JOMS) is a fully open-access journal. All articles are freely and permanently available immediately upon publication, without charge to readers or their institutions and without subscription or registration. Any user may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, in accordance with the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence.

Licence

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

JOMS articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Anyone may copy, redistribute, adapt and build upon an article for non-commercial purposes, provided they credit the authors, cite the original publication in JOMS with its DOI, indicate any changes, and distribute any adaptations under the same licence. Authors retain copyright. Full details are given in the Copyright and Licensing Policy.

No fees

JOMS charges no fees for submission, peer review or publication. See Article Processing Charges.

Benefits for authors

  • Global accessibility: immediate, free access to every article for readers worldwide.
  • Greater visibility: wider readership, which can lead to more citations.
  • Author rights: authors keep their copyright and may deposit any version of their article in repositories without embargo (see the Self-Archiving Policy).