Open Access Policy

Intercontinental Journal of Internal Medicine (ICJIM) and MediHealth Academy adhere to the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, which advocates for free access to research literature. Open access is defined as the free availability of academic literature on the internet, allowing users to read, record, copy, print, search, link to the full text, examine it for indexing, and use it for lawful purposes without financial, legal, or technical barriers. Information sharing is considered a public good and is essential for the advancement of science.

As such, all articles published in ICJIM are made available for non-commercial use by researchers and other readers without the need to request prior permission from the author or the publisher, provided that the author and the original source are properly cited and the material is not modified, adapted, translated, transformed, or distributed in altered form. Articles in ICJIM are accessible through search engines, websites, blogs, and other digital platforms.

ICJIM follows the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) for all articles published. Authors who submit their papers for publication agree to have the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license applied to their work. Under this open access license, authors agree that their work may be copied and redistributed for non-commercial purposes, provided that the original author and source are properly credited and the work is not modified, adapted, or distributed in altered form. The corresponding author is required to sign the Creative Commons License Agreement once the article has been accepted.

Open Access Statement:

ICJIM is an open-access publication, and all content is freely available without charge to the user or their institution. For non-commercial purposes only, users may read, download, copy, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in ICJIM without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author, provided that appropriate credit is given and the articles are not modified, adapted, translated, transformed, or distributed in altered form.

This policy is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition of open access. All open-access articles in ICJIM are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license.

Licensing:

Open access articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which allows users to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for non-commercial purposes only, provided that the original source is properly cited and the material is not modified, adapted, or distributed in altered form.