Copyright and License

Copyright

Authors retain copyright in the articles they publish in JCDP. On acceptance, authors grant Open Access Pub, the publisher of the journal, a license to publish the article and to identify itself as the original publisher.

Authors keep the right to reuse their article in later work, such as books, theses, teaching material and presentations, and to share it on personal websites, academic networks and in repositories.

The CC BY 4.0 license

Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). Under this license anyone may:

• Share: copy and redistribute the article in any medium or format.
• Adapt: remix, transform and build upon the article for any purpose, including commercial use.

These freedoms apply on two conditions. Users give appropriate credit, link to the license and indicate whether changes were made. Users do not apply legal terms or technological measures that restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Published articles may be translated into other languages provided the original source is credited, the translator is identified and the translation states that it is a translation. Authors who wish to provide an official translation may contact the editorial office.

Attribution when reusing an article

Credit for a reused JCDP article includes:

• the authors’ names and the article title
• the journal name, Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Pathology, with the year, volume and issue
• the DOI or URL of the article
• the license, CC BY 4.0, with a link to it
• a statement of any changes made to the original

The license does not imply endorsement of a derivative work by the original authors.

Third-party material

The CC BY 4.0 license covers the content created by the authors. It does not cover material owned by others that is reproduced in an article with permission, such as a figure or table from another publication, unless its credit line states that it is also available under CC BY. Trademarks and logos are not covered.

Authors obtain written permission for any third-party material before submission, supply it with the manuscript and give the source in the caption. Material from articles under CC BY needs attribution but usually no permission; authors check the license of the source. See Data Archiving and Permissions.

Repositories and sharing

Authors may deposit the submitted, accepted or published version of their article in institutional or subject repositories, without embargo. A link to the published version through its DOI is encouraged, so that readers find the version of record. Authors who posted a preprint before submission retain the rights in that preprint and are encouraged to link it to the published version.

The journal’s content will be deposited in Portico, the digital-preservation archive. Read our preservation policy.

Author responsibilities

By submitting a manuscript, authors confirm that the work is original, has not been published elsewhere, and does not infringe the rights of others; that they hold the permissions needed for reproduced content; and that all authors have approved the final version for submission and publication.

Questions

For questions about copyright, licensing or permissions, write to the editorial office at [email protected].