Open access policy

Articles submitted to Archives of Physiotherapy are published, after having successfully completed the peer-review process, under Creative Common licences. Open Access contents are more effectively included in search engines and indexing databases, resulting in larger visibility and higher citation. Upon acceptance, the corresponding author (on behalf of all co-authors) is required to sign a licence to publish, which defines the use of the accepted paper.

The publication of open access articles is covered by an Article Processing Charge (APC) paid by the author after acceptance. There are no submission fees, no fees for rejected articles and there is no additional cost for manuscript length, colour items or supplementary files, including videos. APC is waived for invited reviews and editorials.

Authors retain copyright of their work and agree to publish their articles under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial CC-BY-NC 4.0 (CC-BY-NC 4.0) license, which allows third parties to re-use the work without permission as long as the work is properly referenced and the use is non-commercial: 

  • Read, print, and download
  • Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
  • Translate (for private use only)
  • Reuse portions or extracts from the article in other works, quoting original source

Re-use for commercial purposes is not permitted. 

Manuscripts funded by the Wellcome Trust, RCUK, and other organizations with the same requirements, are published under the Creative Common Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) which allows users to:

  • copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
  • remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

Authors may share their work following the indications outlined under the journal’s self-archiving and sharing policy.

Readers have access to the all articles published in the journal, without subscription and with no embargo period. They are allowed to re-use the work without permission as long as the work is properly referenced and the use is non-commercial:

  • Read, print, and download
  • Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
  • Translate (for private use only)
  • Reuse portions or extracts from the article in other works, quoting original source

Re-use for commercial purposes is not permitted. 

 

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For additional information on our open access policy, please contact us.