Open Access Statement

Open Access - Life Sciences, Medicine and Biomedicine

1. Life Sciences, Medicine and Biomedicine is published by Biome Scientia Sdn Bhd (known as Biome Scientia).

2. Life Sciences, Medicine and Biomedicine is a peer-reviewed open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Our Open Access Policies can be found on Sherpa Romeo : Life Sciences, Medicine and Biomedicine.

3. Sherpa Romeo is an online resource that aggregates and analyses publisher open access policies from around the world and provides summaries of publisher copyright and open access archiving policies on a journal-by-journal basis.

4. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author as long as the original work is accurately cited. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

5. All articles published in Life Sciences, Medicine and Biomedicine are published under the Creative Commons Licences, CC BY license. Please refer to the Creative Commons page for more information.

6. CC BY license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator by accurately citing the original source. The license allows for commercial use.

7. The full text of the articles of Life Sciences, Medicine and Biomedicine are freely available without embargo.

8. During submission, authors will be required to confirm that they agree to the Open Access policies of Life Sciences, Medicine and Biomedicine.

9. Manuscripts published before 15 May 2020, were published under the Creative Commons License, CC BY SA.

10. We have now introduced all future submissions and publications under the Creative Commons License CC BY to allow maximum dissemination of information. During submission, authors will be required to confirm that they agree to the Open Access policies of Life Sciences, Medicine and Biomedicine.

 

All publications on and after 15 May 2020 will use the following Creative Commons License:

   

All publications before 15 May 2020 was published using the Creative Commons License: