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SELF-ARCHIVING POLICY
Self-Archiving Policy
Authors of articles published in Medicine and Public Health are permitted and strongly encouraged to self-archive their work. The journal supports the immediate and open dissemination of research results in accordance with the conditions set out below.
Where Authors May Deposit Their Work
Authors may deposit permitted versions of their manuscript without an embargo period. The journal applies a zero-embargo self-archiving policy.
Permitted versions may also be shared through academic networking platforms such as ResearchGate and Academia.edu, subject to the conditions applicable to the relevant manuscript version. Once the article has been formally published, the bibliographic citation and DOI or other persistent link to the Version of Record should be provided.
Versions That May Be Shared
Submitted Version
Preprint
The submitted version may be shared before formal peer review and editorial acceptance.
If a manuscript has been publicly posted as a preprint before or during submission to Medicine and Public Health, Authors should disclose this fact to the Editorial Office and provide the relevant link or persistent identifier where available.
Accepted Manuscript
Postprint
The accepted manuscript may be self-archived immediately after formal acceptance for publication, without an embargo period. Once the Version of Record has been published, the archived accepted manuscript should include a full bibliographic citation and the DOI or other persistent link to the published article.
Published Version
Version of Record (VoR)
The final published Version of Record may be shared immediately upon publication, without an embargo period, in accordance with the Creative Commons licence applied to the published article.
Conditions of Self-Archiving
When self-archiving the Accepted Manuscript (Postprint), Authors should provide a full bibliographic citation to the published article and its DOI or other persistent link once the Version of Record becomes available.
When self-archiving the Published Version of Record (VoR), the published version should remain unmodified and should include the full bibliographic citation, the DOI or other persistent link to the article, and a link to the applicable Creative Commons licence.
Self-archived copies must not be presented in a way that misrepresents their publication status or suggests endorsement by the journal or Publisher beyond the original publication.
Licensing of Shared Versions
Preprint and Accepted Manuscript
The journal permits self-archiving of the submitted version and the accepted manuscript in accordance with this policy. Their permitted deposit under this policy should not be interpreted as automatically placing those versions under the Creative Commons licence applied to the published Version of Record.
Published Version of Record
The Published Version of Record is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), unless otherwise stated on the published article.
Conditions for Sharing the Version of Record
Under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence, the Published Version of Record may be copied and redistributed in any medium or format for non-commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given, a link to the licence is provided, and the applicable attribution information is retained.
If the published material is remixed, transformed, translated, or otherwise adapted, the modified material may not be distributed under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence.
Vol. 4 (2026)
Published: 2026-10-12
eISSN: 2956-9443
