Licensing & Copyright

Licensing Policy

The manuscripts in JHSMS are Open-Access content published under the Creative Commons Attribution-4.0 (CC BY 4.0) International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. This license permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work and source are properly cited.

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Copyright Policy

JHSMS's copyright policy is based on a non-exclusive publishing agreement. According to this agreement, the journal retains the right of first publication, but the author(s) are free to publish their work subsequently. The copyright of all work rests with the author(s).