Open Access Statement

The Journal of Diabetes, Metabolism and Endocrinology is committed to providing open and unrestricted access to its published scholarly content. The journal believes that research should be widely accessible to researchers, healthcare professionals, students, policymakers, and the general public, subject to the terms of the applicable Creative Commons license.

1. Free Access to Published Articles

All published articles are made available online to readers free of charge.

Readers do not need a subscription or institutional membership to access, read, download, and use published articles in accordance with the applicable license terms.

Open access supports:

  • Wider dissemination of scientific research.
  • Greater visibility and discoverability.
  • International scholarly communication.
  • Knowledge sharing among researchers and healthcare professionals.
  • Educational and academic use.
  • Increased accessibility to research findings.

2. Creative Commons License

Unless otherwise stated on an individual article, articles published by the journal are distributed under the:

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Under this license, readers may share and redistribute the published material provided that the applicable license conditions are followed.

The full details of the license are available at:

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License

3. Attribution

Users who share or redistribute an article must provide appropriate credit to the original work.

Appropriate attribution should, where reasonably possible, include:

  • Author(s).
  • Article title.
  • Journal name.
  • Publication year.
  • DOI or persistent article identifier.
  • A reference to the applicable Creative Commons license.

Users must not imply that the original authors or journal endorse their reuse or redistribution unless such endorsement has been expressly granted.

4. Non-Commercial Use

The CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license permits use for non-commercial purposes, subject to the license terms.

Commercial use requires separate permission from the relevant rights holder where applicable.

Examples of generally non-commercial activities may include:

  • Personal academic study.
  • Teaching and educational use.
  • Non-commercial research.
  • Scholarly discussion.
  • Sharing the published article in accordance with the license.

5. No Derivatives

The CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license permits redistribution of the work without modifications.

Users should not distribute modified, adapted, transformed, or remixed versions of the licensed material under this license.

This restriction helps preserve the integrity of the published scholarly record.

6. Author Rights

Authors retain appropriate rights in their scholarly work subject to the publication agreement and applicable Creative Commons licensing terms.

Publication under an open-access license allows the research to be broadly disseminated while establishing clear conditions for reuse.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that third-party material included in their manuscript is appropriately identified and that the necessary permissions have been obtained where required.

7. Third-Party Material

Not all material appearing within an article is necessarily covered by the journal's Creative Commons license.

Third-party content, including photographs, figures, tables, datasets, or other copyrighted material, may be subject to separate copyright or licensing conditions.

Where applicable, such material should be identified in the article.

Users wishing to reuse third-party material are responsible for determining whether additional permission is required.

8. Article Accessibility

The journal aims to ensure that published articles remain freely accessible through its official website and persistent article links.

Where available, article metadata and persistent identifiers may also be distributed to scholarly indexing, abstracting, repository, and discovery services.

9. Open Access and Editorial Independence

Open access status does not influence the editorial evaluation of a manuscript.

Manuscripts are evaluated according to the journal's:

  • Scope.
  • Scientific quality.
  • Originality.
  • Methodological rigor.
  • Ethical compliance.
  • Peer-review requirements.
  • Publication standards.

Payment of an Article Processing Charge, where applicable, does not guarantee acceptance or publication.

10. Commitment to Open Scholarly Communication

The Journal of Diabetes, Metabolism and Endocrinology supports responsible open access as a means of improving the accessibility, dissemination, and long-term impact of medical and scientific research.

By providing free access to published articles under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International License, the journal seeks to balance broad scholarly accessibility with appropriate protection of authors' rights, publication integrity, and responsible reuse of scientific content.