Copyright and Licensing

The NJCM does not require authors to transfer the copyright of their published work to the journal. However, the authors grant first publication right to the publisher. Once the article is published, authors can reuse their papers in any form, without requiring permission from the publisher of the journal.

National Journal of Community Medicine is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY SA 4.0).

All articles in the NJCM are published under a CC BY SA (4.0) License. The CC BY SA allows for maximum dissemination and re-use of open access materials. Under this license, users are free to share (copy, distribute and transmit) and remix (adapt) the contribution including for commercial purposes, providing that appropriate credit is given, that a link to the article is provided.

Authors retain copyright of their work, with first publication rights granted to Medsci Publications.