LICENSING AND COPYRIGHT
Licensing Policy
All the Open access (OA) articles in The Gazette of Medical Sciences (TheGMS) are published under Creative Commons Attribution v4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). This license acts as a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone. It also provides an industry-standard framework to support easy reuse of open access material.
CC BY is a default license for all articles published in TheGMS. It is an open license and considered the industry ‘gold standard’ for open access. This license allows readers to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, and to alter, transform, or build upon the material, including for commercial use, providing the original author is credited.
Copyright Policy
Authors retain copyright of all Open Access articles published by The Gazette of Medical Sciences (TheGMS). Authors identify themselves as original publishers and provide a cover letter with a declaration that they are granting permission to TheGMS to publish their articles.
The Copyright policy determines the rights related to the publication and distribution of a submitted article. It governs how authors (as well as their employers or funders), publishers and the wider general public can use, publish and distribute the articles. Copyright aims to protect the specific way the article has been written to describe an experiment and the results. TheGMS is committed to its authors to protect and defend their work and their reputation and takes allegations of infringement, plagiarism, ethic disputes and fraud very seriously.
The copyright policy allows the authors to grant any third party the right to use the article freely as long as its integrity is maintained and its original authors, citation details and publisher are identified. These terms and conditions of published articles are according to The Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0.
In case an author is prevented from being a copyright holder due to some government led regulations or any other circumstances, the authors should inform TheGMS during or immediately after submission of their article. Once the article is published, claims for changes in copyright line cannot be entertained.