96
Total Score
Total Score
Journal of Biomedical Science
1423-0127 (Print)Biomed Central Ltd.
| ACCESS | READER RIGHTS | REUSE RIGHTS | COPYRIGHTS | AUTHOR POSTING RIGHTS | AUTOMATIC POSTING | MACHINE READABILITY | ACCESS |
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Free readership rights to all articles immediately upon publication | Generous reuse & remixing rights (e.g., CC BY license) | Author holds copyright with no restrictions | Author may post any version to any repository or website with no delay | Journals make copies of all articles automatically available in trusted third-party repositories (e.g.,PubMed Central, OpenAire, institutional) immediately upon publication | Article full text, metadata, supporting data (including format and semantic markup) & citations may be accessed via API, with instructions publicly posted | |
| Free readership rights to all articles after an embargo of no more than 6 months | Reuse, remixing, & further building upon the work subject to certain restrictions & conditions (e.g., CC BY-NC & CC BY-SA licenses) | Author retains/publisher grants broad rights, including author reuse (e.g., of figures in presentations/teaching, creation of derivatives) and authorization rights (for others to use) | Author may post some version (determined by publisher) to any repository or website with no delay | Journals make copies of all articles automatically available in trusted third-party repositories (e.g., PubMed Central, OpenAire, institutional) within 6 months | Article full text, metadata, & citations may be accessed via API, with instructions publicly posted | ||
| Free readership rights to all articles after an embargo greater than 6 months | Reuse (no remixing or further building upon the work) subject to certain restrictions and conditions (e.g., CC BY-ND license) | - | Author may post some version (determined by publisher) to any repository or website with some delay (determined by the publisher) | Journals make copies of all articles automatically available in trusted third-party repositories (e.g., PubMed Central, OpenAire, institutional) within 12 months | Article full text, metadata, & citations may be crawled without special permission or registration, with instructions publicly posted | ||
| Free and immediate readership rights to some, but not all, articles (including “hybrid” models) | Some reuse rights beyond fair use for some, but not all, articles (including “hybrid models”) | Author retains/publisher grants limited rights for author reuse (e.g., of fi gures in presentations/teaching, creation of derivatives) | Author may post some version (determined by publisher) to certain repositories or websites, with or without delays | Journals make copies of some, but not all, articles automatically available in trusted third-party repositories (e.g., PubMed Central, OpenAire, institutional) within 12 months | Article full text, metadata, & citations may be crawled with permission, with instructions publicly posted | ||
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Subscription, membership, pay-per-view, or other fees required to read all articles | No reuse rights beyond fair use/dealing or other limitations or exceptions to copyright (All Rights Reserved) | Publisher holds copyright, with no author reuse beyond fair use | Author may not deposit any versions to any repositories or websites at any time | No automatic posting in third-party repositories | No full text articles available for crawling | |
Score Details
| Area | Score | Relevant Text | |
| Reader Rights | 20 | All articles published by Journal of Biomedical Science are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers. | link |
| Reuse Rights | 20 | Authors of articles published in Journal of Biomedical Science are the copyright holders of their articles and have granted to any third party, in advance and in perpetuity, the right to use, reproduce or disseminate the article, according to the BioMed Central copyright and license agreement. | link |
| Copyrights | 16 | Authors of articles published in Journal of Biomedical Science are the copyright holders of their articles and have granted to any third party, in advance and in perpetuity, the right to use, reproduce or disseminate the article, according to the BioMed Central copyright and license agreement. | link |
| Author Posting Rights | 16 | Authors of articles published in BMC retain the copyright of their articles and are free to reproduce and disseminate their work. | link |
| Automatic Posting | 12 | The full text of all research articles is deposited in PubMed Central, the US National Library of Medicine's full-text repository of life science literature, and other digital archives including e-Depot (The Netherlands). | link |
| Machine Readability | 12 | Springer Open Access API - Provides metadata and full-text content for more than 280,000 online documents from Springer open access xml, including BioMed Central and SpringerOpen journals. | link |
Score verified as of 30 Nov 2015
Score first added to site 22 Dec 2015
Score first added to site 22 Dec 2015