Open Access & Licensing
Open Access & Licensing
The Journal of Disease Mechanisms and Genomics (JDMG) is a fully open-access journal. All articles published in JDMG are made freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication. Readers may access, read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and link to the full text of published articles without subscription or access charges, provided that the original work is properly cited.
Open Access Policy
JDMG supports the principle that unrestricted access to scholarly research promotes knowledge sharing, scientific progress, academic visibility, and wider public benefit. The journal aims to make high-quality research in disease mechanisms, genomics, molecular medicine, and translational biomedical sciences accessible to researchers, clinicians, educators, students, policymakers, and the wider scientific community. Published articles are available without paywalls or institutional login requirements.
Licensing Policy
Articles published in JDMG are published under a Creative Commons license. This allows readers and users to share and reuse published work, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original authors and source of publication. Unless otherwise stated, articles are published under the following license:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0)
Under this license, users may:
Share the work by copying and redistributing it in any medium or format.
Adapt the work by remixing, transforming, or building upon it for any purpose.
Use the work for academic, educational, research, and other lawful purposes.
Users must provide appropriate credit to the original author(s), cite the journal as the original source of publication, provide a link to the license where applicable, and indicate if changes were made.
Author Copyright
Authors retain the copyright of their published work. By submitting and publishing with JDMG, authors grant the journal the right to publish the article as the version of record and to make it freely available under the journal’s open-access license. Authors may share, archive, distribute, and reuse their published work, provided that the original publication in JDMG is properly acknowledged.
Reader Rights
All readers have free and immediate access to the full content of JDMG. Readers may use published articles for reading, teaching, research, citation, academic discussion, and scholarly communication, subject to proper attribution and compliance with the applicable Creative Commons license.
Reuse and Distribution
Published articles may be reused or distributed in repositories, institutional websites, academic profiles, teaching materials, research networks, and scholarly databases, provided that the original article is properly cited. Any reuse of figures, tables, or text from JDMG articles must acknowledge the original authors and journal source.
Archiving and Repository Use
Authors are permitted to deposit the published version of their articles in institutional repositories, subject-specific repositories, personal websites, academic networking platforms, and funder-designated repositories. The deposited version should include full citation details and a link to the published article on the JDMG website.
Article Processing Charges
JDMG does not charge any article processing charges, submission fees, publication fees, or access fees. Authors are not required to pay any fee for manuscript submission, peer review, editorial processing, or publication. All accepted articles are published free of charge and made freely available to readers under the journal’s open-access policy. The journal is committed to supporting accessible and ethical scholarly publishing without financial barriers for authors or readers.
Open Access Statement
All articles published in the Journal of Disease Mechanisms and Genomics (JDMG) are freely available online immediately upon publication. Articles are published under a Creative Commons license, allowing sharing and reuse with proper attribution to the original authors and source.
