{"id":10106,"date":"2021-02-11T18:47:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T18:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/?page_id=10106"},"modified":"2021-02-11T18:47:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T18:47:20","slug":"open-access-and-sharing-policy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/?page_id=10106","title":{"rendered":"Open Access and Sharing Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

About Open Access<\/strong>
This journal is a peer reviewed open access journal. Authors do not have to pay any open access publication fee. Peer review under the responsibility of the College of Medicine and the Medical Association of Malawi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Access Rights<\/strong><\/em>
All articles published open access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read, download, copy and distribute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

User Rights<\/strong><\/em>
Permitted third party reuse is defined by the following user license:
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND):
Allows users to copy and distribute the Article, provided this is not done for commercial purposes and further does not permit distribution of the Article if it is changed or edited in any way, and provided the user gives appropriate credit (with a link to the formal publication through the relevant DOI), provides a link to the license, and that the licensor is not represented as endorsing the use made of the work. The full details of the license are available at\u0412 https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author Rights<\/strong><\/em>
For open access publishing, this journal uses an exclusive licensing agreement. Authors will transfer copyright to the College of Medicine and the Medical Association of Malawi, but will have the right to share their article in the same way permitted to third parties under the relevant user license, as well as certain scholarly usage rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publishing Schedule<\/strong><\/em>
This journal is published quarterly; March, June, September, and December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Article Sharing Policy<\/strong>
Authors who publish in the Malawi Medical Journal can share their research articles depending on the article version authors wish to share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Preprint<\/strong><\/em>
\u043f\u201a\u00b7Authors can share their preprint anywhere at any time.
\u043f\u201a\u00b7If accepted for publication, we encourage authors to link from the preprint to their formal publication via its Digital Object Identifier (DOI). Millions of researchers have access to the formal publications on ScienceDirect, and so links will help your users to find, access, cite, and use the best available version.
\u043f\u201a\u00b7Authors can update their preprints on arXiv or RePEc with their accepted manuscript.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accepted Manuscripts<\/strong><\/em>
Authors can share their accepted manuscript:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Immediately<\/em>
\u043f\u201a\u00b7via their non-commercial personal homepage or blog
\u043f\u201a\u00b7by updating a preprint in arXiv or RePEc with the accepted manuscript
\u043f\u201a\u00b7via their research institute or institutional repository for internal institutional uses or as part of an invitation-only research collaboration work-group
\u043f\u201a\u00b7directly by providing copies to their students or to research collaborators for their personal use<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In all cases accepted manuscripts should:<\/em>
\u043f\u201a\u00b7link to the formal publication via its DOI
\u043f\u201a\u00b7bear a CC-BY-NC-ND license\u0412 – this is easy to do \u0432\u0402\u201c refer below on how to attach a user license
\u043f\u201a\u00b7not be added to or enhanced in any way to appear more like, or to substitute for, the published journal article<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to attach a user license:<\/em>
The Malawi Medical Journal requires authors posting their accepted manuscript to attach a non-commercial Creative Commons user license (CC-BY-NC-ND).\u0412  This is easy to do. On your accepted manuscript add the following to the title page, copyright information page, or header \/footer: \u0412\u00a9 YEAR. Licensed under the Creative Commons [insert license details and URL].
For example,
\u0412\u00a9<year>. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-NC 4.0 license https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/<\/a>
You can also include the license badges available from the creative commons website: https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/about\/downloads<\/a>\u0412 to provide visual recognition. If you are hosting your own manuscript as a webpage you will also find the correct HTML code to add to your page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

User\u0412 license<\/strong><\/td>Read,\u0412 print \u0412 and \u0412 download<\/strong><\/td>Redistribute \u0412 <\/strong> or\u0412 republish \u0412 <\/strong> the\u0412 article\u0412 <\/strong> (e.g.\u0412 display \u0412  in\u0412 a \u0412 repository)<\/strong><\/td>Translate \u0412 <\/strong> the\u0412 article<\/strong><\/td>Download\u0412 <\/strong> for\u0412 text \u0412 and\u0412 data \u0412 mining\u0412 purposes<\/strong><\/td>Reuse\u0412 <\/strong> portions \u0412 or\u0412 extracts\u0412 <\/strong> from \u0412 the\u0412 article\u0412 in \u0412 other\u0412 works<\/strong><\/td>Sell\u0412 or\u0412 re-use\u0412 <\/strong> for \u0412 commercial \u0412 purposes<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
CC\u0412 BY-NC-ND\u0412 4.0<\/strong><\/td>Yes<\/td>Yes<\/td>Yes For\u0412 private \u0412 use\u0412 only\u0412 and \u0412 not\u0412 for \u0412 distribution<\/td>Yes<\/td>Yes<\/td>No<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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