Self-Archiving Policy

The Journal of Medical Sciences (JOMS) allows and encourages authors to deposit their work in repositories. Authors retain copyright, and all JOMS articles are published open access under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence, so there is no embargo period for any version.

1. Which versions may be deposited

Version	Can it be deposited?	Conditions
Preprint (the version submitted to JOMS)	Yes, at any time	After acceptance, add a link to the published article.
Accepted manuscript (after peer review, before typesetting)	Yes, immediately, with no embargo	Cite the published article and include its DOI.
Published version (final PDF)	Yes, immediately, with no embargo	Keep the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence statement and cite the article with its DOI.

2. Where articles may be deposited

Authors may deposit their articles in any repository or platform, including:

• institutional repositories, such as that of Sebha University or the authors' own institutions;
• subject repositories and preprint servers, such as medRxiv, bioRxiv, Research Square or Zenodo;
• academic networks, such as ResearchGate or Academia.edu;
• the authors' personal or departmental websites.

Third parties who redistribute a JOMS article must follow the terms of the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence, including the NonCommercial condition.

3. Preprints

Posting a preprint before or during submission does not affect consideration by JOMS and is not treated as prior publication. Authors must tell the journal about the preprint in their cover letter. See the Plagiarism and Similarity Policy.

4. How to link to the published article

Every deposited copy should include the full citation and the DOI link, for example: "This article was published in the Journal of Medical Sciences (Sebha), available at https://doi.org/10.51984/…, under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence."