Medicine and Public Health

Open Access and APC Policy

Medicine and Public Health is an open access journal. All articles published in the journal are made freely and permanently available online immediately after publication, without subscription fees, embargo periods, or registration barriers.

Global Dissemination of Research

The journal provides open access to its content in order to support the global exchange of biomedical knowledge and to increase the visibility, accessibility, and impact of published research. Readers are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and link to the full texts of published articles in accordance with the applicable Creative Commons licence.

Licensing Terms

The journal publishes articles under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), unless otherwise stated. This licence permits users to copy and redistribute the published material in any medium or format for non-commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given, a link to the licence is provided, and no derivative works are distributed.

Diamond Open Access (No Author Fees)

Medicine and Public Health operates in a diamond open access model. The journal does not charge authors any submission fees, editorial processing charges, article processing charges (APCs), page charges, colour illustration charges, or publication fees.

The costs of editorial management, peer review, online publication, and long-term digital preservation of journal content are fully covered by the Publisher: AFM Publishing House of Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University.

Self-Archiving Policy

Authors are permitted and strongly encouraged to deposit versions of their manuscript in institutional repositories (such as eRIKA), subject repositories, or on their personal websites under a zero-embargo policy. The Submitted Preprint may be posted anywhere at any time prior to publication. The Accepted Manuscript (Postprint) and the Published Version of Record (VoR) may be deposited immediately upon publication, provided that full bibliographic attribution and a persistent DOI link to the original publication are included.