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.