Copyright Notice

This document outlines the official copyright and licensing framework for Health and Medical Discoveries (HMD), ensuring transparent and equitable access to published research.

1. Copyright Retention
Authors hold the copyright to their original manuscript. By submitting to HMD, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive publishing license to produce, distribute, and archive the final published article.

2. Open Access License
To fulfill our mission of unrestricted knowledge sharing, every article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Under this license, any user may:

  • Reproduce and Share the work in any format.

  • Create Adapted Versions of the work.
    These rights are granted for all purposes, including commercial use, conditional upon providing complete attribution to the original source. Proper attribution must include author credits, citation of Health and Medical Discoveries (HMD), a link to the CC BY 4.0 license, and a note of any modifications made.

3. Specific Rights and Responsibilities

  • Author Rights: Authors are explicitly encouraged to self-archive the final published PDF on personal websites, institutional repositories, and scholarly networks (e.g., ResearchGate, Google Scholar). They may reuse text, figures, or data from their HMD article in future publications without requiring further permission, provided the original HMD publication is cited.

  • Third-Party Material: Authors are responsible for securing all necessary permissions and providing proper attribution for any copyrighted material (e.g., images, clinical photographs, proprietary questionnaires) from other sources included in their manuscript.

  • Publisher Archiving: Health and Medical Discoveries (HMD) maintains the right to preserve all published content in long-term digital archives to guarantee its perpetual availability as part of the global scientific record.

4. Integrity and Compliance
Submissions must be the original work of the authors and free from plagiarism. HMD follows the core practices and guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) in addressing any allegations of misconduct, including copyright infringement.

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