What
is platinum open access?
UMSHA Press supports platinum open
access as a publishing model. Platinum open access means permanent and free
access to published scientific works for readers and no publication fees for
the authors it is 100% free. All articles are published
under the most flexible reuse standard the CC BY license.
Authors are not charged article
processing fees or publication fees – no fees whatsoever. Importantly, authors
retain copyright of their work and allow it to be shared and reused, provided
that it is correctly cited.
Readers anywhere in the world may download, share or use the work,
free of charge.
Manuscripts submitted for
publication in a platinum open access journals are subject to the same rigorous
peer-review and quality control as in scholarly subscription journals.
Who
funds this?
All publication costs for
articles in the UMSHA Press Journals are completely funded by the Hamadan
University of Medical Sciences (UMSHA) in Iran. The UMSHA supports
the advancement of scientific communication and information exchange, driven by
the belief that scientific knowledge is a social good and should be available
to everyone without barriers.
Copyright Statement
Starting from January 1st 2022,
All articles in the journal are published Open Access under a Creative Commons
Attribution license (CC BY-4.0). This allows authors to retain copyright of their work whilst
others can share, use and build upon this work created as long as appropriate
attribution is given.
Self-archive policy
Authors of articles published in UMSHA Press journals are
permitted to self-archive the preprint version of the article at any time, and
may self-archive the post print and published version without embargo. Articles
may be placed on:
·
The author's personal website
·
The author's company/institutional repository
or archive
·
Non-for-profit subject-based preprint servers
or repositories (preprints)
·
Non-for-profit subject-based repositories
such as PubMed Central (postprints) and Research Gate
·
Other suitable non-for-profit sites
Preprint version
A preprint is the version of an article before peer-review.
Authors are not requested to remove a preprint from a non-for-profit preprint
server before submission. Upon acceptance, we recommend including an
acknowledgement of acceptance on the first page, as follows:
“This is the pre-peer-reviewed
version of the article which has been subsequently peer-reviewed and accepted
for publication in [JOURNAL TITLE].”
After publication, the author may include the
sentence:
“This is the
pre-peer-reviewed version of the following article, which has been published
online at [Link to final article using the DOI]: [FULL CITE].”
Post print
version
A post print is the version of an
article that has been peer-reviewed, revised, and accepted for publication, but
prior to the final publication version which often includes copyediting,
typesetting, and so forth. The following notice should be included on the first
page:
"This
is the peer-reviewed and pre-copyedited version of the article which has been
accepted for publication in [JOURNAL TITLE].”
After publication, the author may
include the sentence:
“This
is the peer-reviewed and pre-copyedited version of the following article, which
has been published online at [Link to final article using the DOI]: [FULL CITE]”
Published Version
A published version is the
article in formal format that is published online by the publisher. The version
self-archived should include the full citation of the article on the first
page.
Advertising
The journal does not accept direct advertising
Direct marketing
On occasion the journal will use direct marketing activities
(primarily email campaigns) to raise awareness of the journal and to invite
authors to submit articles. Marketing activities are conducted by the Hamadan
University of Medical Sciences.