Journal of Regional Medical Campuses

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Authorship is intended not only to give appropriate credit to researchers but also to indicate who is ultimately responsible for the work being published. JRMC conforms to the recommendations of the ICMJE in defining the role of authors and contributors. The ICMJE states that authorship should be based on four criteria: “Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acq…

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Human subjects research requires IRB review. Model summary

Any work that is conducted using surveys or information obtained from human subjects is required to follow our Treatment of Human Subjects policy which requires review by an Institutional Review Board.

All articles published in the Journal of Regional Medical Campuses are distributed with a Creative Commons Noncommercial Attribution (CC BY-NC 4.0) license meaning that authors hold the copyright to their work. This also means that users have the right to share or adapt the article, as long as the author(s) and source are cited, and the use is for noncommercial purposes. Permission is not needed f…

Open access, peer-reviewed, web-based journal. Model summary

The Journal of Regional Medical Campuses provides immediate open access to its content, which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or their institution. This also means that the Journal of Regional Medical Campuses does not charge article processing fees. All articles are licensed under a Creative Commons Noncommercial Attribution license (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Follows ICMJE recommendations and COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers. Model summary

This journal follows the recommendations in the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals formulated by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). We also ask reviewers to follow the COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers.

The copyright of each article belongs to the author(s) and grants each author the right to deposit the article in their institutional repository or any suitable subject repository, provided they do not contravene the requirements of the CC license associated with the article.