Open Access License and Permissions for Reuse of Content
Open Access License
When the journal first began in 2010, the Open Access movement was a relatively new development in academic publishing. Today it is an important consideration for determining which journal to submit to.
Open-Access journals provide an academic publishing model that enables global, barrier-free, immediate open access to the full text of research articles for the best interests of the scientific community and the general public. Open Access journals are no different from traditional subscription-based journals; they undergo the same peer-review and quality control process as any other scholarly journal.
The Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal is an Open-Access journal that applies the Creative Commons Attribution License (Attribution 3.0 Unported; full legal text of the license is available here), under which anyone is free to copy, distribute and display the work; to make derivative works; to make commercial use of the work without receiving permission from the authors or the publishers, under the following conditions:
The original authors and source are properly acknowledged and cited. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
For any reuse or distribution, it must be made clear to others what the license terms of this work are.
Any of these conditions can be waived if the author gives permission. To receive that waiver, you should contact the corresponding author.
Appropriate attribution can be provided by simply citing the original article (e.g. Hershko A. Science as an Adventure - Lessons for the Young Scientist. RMMJ 2010;1:e001. doi:10.5041/RMMJ.10001).
Permissions
All journal content of Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Hence no official permission is needed to reuse content that has not been copyrighted elsewhere. However, appropriate attribution must be given regarding that content.
When reusing figures or tables, please verify that the figure or table has not been copyrighted elsewhere. If content has been copyrighted elsewhere, that information will be mentioned in the acknowledgments or the table/figure caption. In that case, please contact the original publisher of that content for permission.
For all original content, tables, figures, text boxes, or the entire manuscript can be reused, as long as it is properly attributed. When reusing an entire manuscript the attribution should appear in a clearly visible location on the first page of the text.
Example of an in-text attribution
"This XXX was previously published in <ALL AUTHORS>. <TITLE>. Rambam Maimonides Med J <Year>;<VOL>(<ISSUE>):eyyyy. doi:10.5041/RMMJ.10ZZZ"
where
XXX refers to the "manuscript", "text box", "table", or "figure" – depending on the content being reused;
yyyy refers to the published page number; and
ZZZ refers to the published DOI number.
Example of a referenced attribution
"Reused from <FIRST AUTHOR> et al. (10)"
In this case, reference 10 would be the manuscript from which the content was taken.
Reusing Text, Tables, or Figures
Permissions for reuse of an article and its content are not needed from the journal.
When reusing copied text, place quotation marks properly around the text and reference the quote.
When reusing a copied figure or table, write in the legend, "From Reference & REF number, used under the Creative Commons CC-BY 3.0 license."
For all questions, or to obtain the original figures or tables for reuse, please contact the Editorial Assistant for Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal.