Open Access Articles Sample Clauses
Open Access Articles. Open Access means that the author or their employer or other institution has agreed with the Publisher that this Contribution should be considered an open access contribution and has paid the Publisher the standard rate in force. For Open Access articles, the Publisher expressly agrees to place the published Contribution for display on PMC (including for deposit by PMC on their international mirror sites) promptly after allocation of an issue number and thereafter publication, without extra charge for this deposit to the authors or their employers or other institution that has agreed with the Publisher to make the article Open Access (provided PMC does not charge the Publisher), which will include any Publisher supplied amendments or retractions. Open Access articles may be reused by Contributors and any third party under the terms of the one of the following Creative Commons licences depending on the source of the research funding as per below:
Open Access Articles. (a) The Publisher agrees to publish Open Access Articles, under the following conditions:
(i) made immediately Open Access, as the Version of Record in a Licensed Title on the Publisher website with no embargo period;
(ii) published under the terms of the CC-BY Version 4.0 licence; and
(iii) deposited by the Publisher on acceptance in PubMed Central.
Open Access Articles. 2.1 If accepted for publication in an Eligible Journal, during the Term Corresponding Authors may publish the following number of open access articles, without having to pay an article publishing charge (“APC”):
(a) a total of 30 open access articles for the calendar year 2022;
(b) a total of 31 open access articles for the calendar year 2023; and
(c) a total of 32 open access articles for the calendar year 2024.
2.2 If there are any unused articles at the end of a calendar year, such articles will not carry over to the next calendar year. Unused articles will expire at the end of each year and are not refundable.
Open Access Articles. 8.1. Subject to clause 8.2, in relation to Open Access Articles, Work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) or any subsequent versions of this licence as determined by BMJ.
8.2. Where research on which an Open Access Article is based is funded by the Wellcome Trust, Research Councils UK (RCUK), NIH, or any other funder that mandates the use of CC-BY licence, or BMJ has expressly agreed that the CC-BY licence shall apply, the Work may be re-used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0) or any subsequent versions of this licence as determined by BMJ.
8.3. The Corresponding Author is required to advise BMJ before publication whether the funding source is one of the bodies referred to in clause 8.2 and will be provided at the point of submission of the Work for publication.
8.4. Irrespective of which Creative Commons licence applies, BMJ requires that all reuse of the Work (other than an exact republication of the Version of Record) must remove any BMJ trade marks (whether registered or unregistered).
8.5. Any translations of the Work permitted under any Creative Commons licence, must include the following statement: