Definition of Open Access
Macedonian Journal of
Medical Sciences (MJMS) endorses the definition of open access
publication drafted by the
Bethesda Meeting on Open Access Publishing. However, MJMS has
chosen to apply the less-restrictive Creative
Commons Attribution License (CCAL) to all works we publish. Unlike the
Bethesda Convention, the CCAL allows commercial re-use of all MJMS
journals' content.
An Open Access Publication[1]
is one that meets the following two conditions:
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The author(s) and
copyright holder(s) grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable,
worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a license to copy, use,
distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and
distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible
purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship,[2] as
well as the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their
personal use.
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A complete version of the
work and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission
as stated above, in a suitable standard electronic format is deposited
immediately upon initial publication in at least one online repository
that is supported by an academic institution, scholarly society,
government agency, or other well-established organization that seeks to
enable open access, unrestricted distribution, interoperability, and
long-term archiving (for the biomedical sciences, PubMed Central is such
a repository).
[1]
Open access is a property of individual works, not necessarily journals or
publishers.
[2]
Community standards, rather than copyright law, will continue to provide
the mechanism for enforcement of proper attribution and responsible use of
the published work, as they do now.
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