ARCHIVING POLICY

JIIMC contents are deposited in digital archive. To guarantee long-term digital preservation, content published in JIIMC will be deposited in the PKP PN. PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) is to digitally preserve OJS journals. The PKP PN ensures that journals that are not part of any other digital preservation service (such as CLOCKSS or Portico) can be preserved for long-term access.  

REPOSITORY/SELF ARCHIVING POLICY

PRE-PRINT- The author’s version of the article before peer-review.

Author(s) retain the right to make a Pre-Print of their Article before it is accepted for publication available on their own personal, self- maintained website or a legally compliant pre-print server as such but not limited to arXiv and bioRxiv. Once the Article has been published, the Author(s) should update the acknowledgement and provide a link to the definitive version on the website of JIIMC - “This is a pre-print of an article published in Journal of Islamic International Medical College [Year, Volume number, Issue Number]. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://journals.riphah.edu.pk/index.php/jiimc/issue/archive

AUTHOR’S ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT (AAM) - The version of article accepted for publication in a journal after peer review but prior to copyediting and type-setting.

Author(s) retain the right to make an AAM of their Article available immediately on acceptance, without any embargo period, on their own personal, self- maintained website, their employer’s internal website or their institutional and/or funder repositories. After publication, an acknowledgement in the following form should be included, together with a link to the published version on the JIIMC website: “This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Journal of Islamic International Medical College[Year, Volume number, Issue Number]. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://journals.riphah.edu.pk/index.php/jiimc/issue/archive

PUBLISHED ARTICLE (VERSION OF RECORD) - The version published (online/print) in a journal following peer review, copyediting and typesetting  

  • AUTHORSretain the rights according to CC BY-NC Attribution-NonCommercial of free downloading/unlimited e-print of full text and sharing/ disseminating the article or the link to the article on journal website without any restriction, by any means including twitter, scholarly collaboration networks like Google Scholar, LinkedIn, Academia.edu, ResearchGate, Twitter, Facebook and any other professional or academic networking sites.

Authors should give a link to the published version on the website of JIIMC: “This is a post-peer-review, copyedit version of article published in Journal of Islamic International Medical College [Year, Volume number, Issue Number]. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://journals.riphah.edu.pk/index.php/jiimc/

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