Open-Access-Policy

Medeniyet Medical Journal adopts open access policy and all articles published open access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. Anyone can use the articles in any constructive way as long as the credit is given to the author and citation to the original source. No permission is required from the authors or the publishers. It is available to reach the articles in this journal in-between search engines, web sites, blogs and other digital platforms.

Medeniyet Medical Journal has adopted an open access policy as a publication organ that is aware of the need to be easily accessible in order to be able to promote scientific researches. When the power of knowledge is considered, open access is of great importance to researchers and readers.. Medeniyet Medical Journal also supports the Budapest Open Access Initiative that was signed on September 12, 2012. Thus, the open access policies adopted by the editorial board of Medeniyet Medical Journal can be found at http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai-10-recommendations.  

Medeniyet Medical Journal publishes all articles under a Creative Commons Attribution License (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND).  This license entitles all parties to copy, share and redistribute all the articles, data sets, figures and supplementary files published in this journal in data mining, search engines, web sites, blogs and other digital platforms under the condition of providing references. Open access is an approach that eases the interdisciplinary communication and encourages cooperation among different disciplines. Medeniyet Medical Journal, therefore, contributes to its own field by providing more access to its articles and a more transparent review process. Medeniyet Medical Journal recommends that libraries include the article contents into library catalogue records. Logos Medical Publishing, publisher of Medeniyet Medical Journal, guarantees that it will not ask for any publication fees from any library or reader to access the electronic articles.

No subscription or fee is required from any researcher to access to electronic articles published in our magazine.