Believers Medical Journal (BeMJ) follows an immediate Gold Open Access publishing model intended to promote broad dissemination, accessibility, and responsible reuse of medical, biomedical, and healthcare research. Authors retain copyright in their published work while granting the journal the non-exclusive rights required to publish, distribute, identify, and preserve the Version of Record.
All published articles are freely accessible online immediately after publication without subscription charges, paywalls, mandatory registration, or reader-access fees. BeMJ's open access and licensing framework is informed by the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), applicable transparency principles of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and relevant ethical publishing principles reflected in the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Core Practices.
Authors retain copyright in their articles and grant BeMJ a non-exclusive license to publish and distribute the work.
Published articles are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Subject to the terms of this license, users may copy, redistribute, adapt, and transform the work, including for commercial or non-commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given, a link to the license is provided, and any changes made to the original work are indicated.
Key principles include:
Under the applicable open access licensing terms, authors may:
Authors are responsible for:
BeMJ permits authors to archive their work without a journal-imposed embargo, subject to applicable licensing and attribution requirements:
| Version | Self-Archiving |
|---|---|
| Preprint or Submitted Manuscript | Permitted |
| Accepted Manuscript | Permitted Immediately |
| Published Version of Record | Permitted Immediately under CC BY 4.0 |
Authors may use institutional repositories, disciplinary repositories, funder-designated repositories, scholarly sharing platforms, or personal academic webpages for permitted self-archiving.
When a manuscript contains third-party material, including photographs, diagrams, charts, tables, questionnaires, or copyrighted text, authors are responsible for determining whether permission is required and obtaining authorization from the relevant rights holder where applicable.
Third-party material that is not covered by the article's CC BY 4.0 license should include a clear credit line identifying the applicable ownership, licensing conditions, or restrictions on reuse.
Technical arrangements used for website development, version control, content management, maintenance, or recovery are separate from the journal's copyright and licensing framework.
Likewise, persistent identifiers such as article DOIs, where assigned, support article identification, citation, linking, and discovery but are not substitutes for an independent long-term digital preservation service.
BeMJ's copyright and licensing practices are informed by relevant COPE Core Practices, DOAJ transparency principles, the Budapest Open Access Initiative, and the stated terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
This policy will be reviewed periodically and updated when necessary to reflect changes in journal procedures, licensing practices, and applicable open access publishing standards.
Authors remain responsible for the originality and lawful use of submitted material, accurate attribution of sources, and obtaining any permissions required for third-party copyrighted content. Believers Medical Journal (BeMJ) may review copyright or licensing concerns and take appropriate editorial action in accordance with its policies and relevant publication-ethics guidance.