Copyright and Licensing Policy

1. Copyright Ownership

Authors who publish in the International Journal of Medical Sciences and Academic Research (IJMSAR) retain full copyright of their work. The journal does not claim ownership of the manuscript, but authors grant IJMSAR a non-exclusive license to publish, reproduce, distribute, display, archive, and preserve the work.

2. Open Access and License

IJMSAR operates under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This license allows anyone to:

• Read, download, and print the articles.

• Copy, distribute, or link to the articles.

• Use and adapt the content for any lawful purpose, including research, teaching, or commercial use, with proper attribution to the original author(s).

• Users must provide appropriate credit to the original author(s), provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made, in accordance with the terms of the CC BY 4.0 License.

3. Author Rights

Authors retain the right to:

• Reuse their content in other publications or repositories.

• Share their work in academic, teaching, or research contexts.

• Authors may reuse, share, archive, and redistribute the submitted version (preprint), accepted manuscript (postprint), and the published Version of Record, provided that appropriate citation to the original publication in IJMSAR is maintained.

4. Access and Reader Rights

All articles are freely available to readers without subscription or registration. Researchers, academics, and other users may access the full text to:

• Read and download the content.

• Copy, distribute, print, or link to the articles.

• Use the work for research, academic, or other lawful purposes, with correct attribution.

5. Purpose

This open access and licensing policy ensures that research published in IJMSAR is:

• Freely accessible to the global scientific community.

• This policy ensures that published research remains freely accessible, legally reusable under the CC BY 4.0 License, and permanently available in accordance with the journal's Open Access and copyright policies.

• Maintaining ethical and legal compliance in publication and distribution.

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  Third-party Material:

  Third-party material included in an article may be subject to separate copyright permissions. Users are responsible for obtaining permission where required.

• Permanent Preservation: 

• Published articles are permanently preserved through the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN).