Copyright & License

Primary Care Science and Practice (PCSP) is an Open Access journal. To support the global exchange of knowledge, we apply the following policies:

1. Copyright Ownership


Authors retain the copyright of their work without any restrictions. By publishing in PCSP, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive right to publish the article as the first publisher and identify itself as the original publisher.

2. Licensing (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)


All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. This license allows others to:

  • Share: Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
  • Attribution: You must give app
  • Non-Commercial: You may not use appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made e material for commercial purposes.
  • No-Derivatives: If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.

3. Author Rights and Reuse


Authors retain full rights to their published work. This includes the right to:

  • Reuse tables, figures, or data in their future scientific or educational works without seeking additional permission from PCSP, provided that a proper citation to the original publication is included.
  • Deposit the published version of their article in institutional or subject repositories (Green Open Access).

4. User Rights


The public is granted free and immediate access to the full text of all articles published in PCSP, promoting maximum visibility and impact for the authors' research.