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Clear licensing terms ensuring open access to primary care research while protecting author rights.
Open Access Licensing
International Journal of General Practice publishes all articles under Creative Commons licensing, ensuring maximum accessibility and reuse of family medicine research while maintaining appropriate author protections.
Our licensing framework balances open science principles with recognition of author contributions to primary care advancement.
All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This widely-adopted license enables broad use of primary care research while requiring proper attribution to original authors.
Sharing Rights
Anyone may copy and redistribute primary care research in any medium or format for any purpose, including clinical applications, with proper attribution.
Adaptation Rights
Family medicine research may be transformed, remixed, or built upon for any purpose. Derivatives must credit the original work and indicate changes made.
Attribution Requirement
Users must give appropriate credit, provide a license link, and indicate if content was modified when reusing published primary care work.
No Additional Restrictions
Licensors cannot impose additional legal terms or technological measures that restrict others from exercising permitted uses.
Authors publishing in International Journal of General Practice retain significant rights to their research work. Understanding these rights helps authors maximize the value of their family medicine publications.
- Copyright remains with the author(s), not transferred to the journal for primary care publications
- Authors may reuse their family medicine content in subsequent publications with proper citation
- Educational use of your own material for medical training requires no additional permission
- Inclusion in edited clinical textbooks or collections is permitted with attribution
- Commercial reuse rights are retained under the CC BY license
Funder compliance: CC BY 4.0 licensing satisfies open access requirements from major research funders including NIH, NIHR, and similar organizations supporting primary care research.
Authors must ensure they have rights to publish all content included in primary care manuscripts. Third-party images, figures, or patient photographs require appropriate permissions and consent.
For questions about licensing terms, reuse permissions, or specific situations not addressed here, contact the editorial office. We provide guidance helping authors and users understand rights and responsibilities for family medicine content.
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