COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING POLICY

All submitted papers are accepted after peer reviewed process and on the understanding that exclusive copyright in the paper is retained to the creator/author.   All authors should give a copy right form to IJMSNR journal/publisher.  All authors are asked to sign a copyright form (refer Online Submission Page) after the acceptance of their respective papers.  All authors are advised to read first the following policies before submitting article to IJMSNR journal and agree to its Copyright and Licensing Policy.

CC BY-NC-SA: This license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for non-commercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. If you remix, adapt, or build upon the material, you must license the modified material under identical terms.

CC BY-NC-SA includes the following elements:
BY  – Credit must be given to the creator
NC  – Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted
SA  – Adaptations must be shared under the same terms

IJMSNR international journal has not encouraged papers those dealing with modifications of routine methodology.  The IJMSNR strongly discourages duplication/reduplication of data already published in any other journals (even when certain cosmetic changes/additions are made send it for publication).  If and when duplication is detected after publishing in IJMSNR, the journal will be forced to ‘retract’ such articles. This is very important message to the authors.  Articles based on work carried out with proper guidelines and permission the parent institutions will be encouraged.  But, articles which will be made in private nursing homes and other non-recognized hospitals/research institutes will not be entertained.

All authors are advised to read first the following policies before submitting article to IJMSNR journal and agree to its Copyright and Licensing Policy Authors who publish with this International Journal of Medical Sciences and Nursing Research (IJMSNR) journal agree to the following terms and conditions:

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0.  International License Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal.

Articles in International Journal of Medical Sciences and Nursing Research (IJMSNR) journal are Open Access articles published under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License).  This license permits to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work and source is properly cited.

Publication Policy and Ethics:  Still we are not a member of COPE.  But, our journal has to follow the COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for scholarly publications. The articles can be viewed at following link publication ethics:  https://publicationethics.org/   This link was mentioned in our IJMSNR journal website after getting proper permission from COPE administrative office (via email).

Open Access:   In case of acceptance after peer review, publish your article under Open Access terms.  Open Access means that everyone around the world can read and download your article as PDF for free of cost.