Copyright Policies

Copyright, Open Access, and Licensing Policy

World Journal of Applied Medical Sciences is a fully open-access journal; all the articles it publishes are immediately and permanently open to the public without the need for a subscription or any access restrictions in order to promote the global spread of scientific knowledge.

Open Access License

The journal offers full open access; all of its content is made freely available as soon as it is published on the basis of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence, which permits wide sharing and use for non-commercial purposes provided that appropriate credit is given.

Copyright

The authors who publish in the Journal retain the copyright over their work; upon submitting and publishing an article, the authors grant the publisher a non-exclusive licence to publish, distribute and display the work as the official version of record.

Author Rights/ Commercial Use

Authors retain full ownership and control over commercial uses of their work. Any commercial use by others requires explicit permission from the copyright holder(s).

By submitting a manuscript to the journal, authors agree to this open-access and licensing terms.