Copyright Notice

Copyright Notice

This notice defines the formal copyright, licensing, and reuse terms for all scholarly content published in Medical Insights (MI) , ensuring legal transparency and full compliance with international open-access best practices and medical publishing standards.

1. Copyright Ownership
Authors retain the copyright of their original research and scholarly contributions. By submitting to and publishing with MI, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive, irrevocable license to publish, reproduce, distribute, and archive the definitive version of the work in all formats and media under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

2. Open Access Licensing
To maximize the dissemination and application of medical research, each article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) : https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. This license grants any user the worldwide, royalty-free right to:

  • Share – copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.

  • Adapt – remix, transform, translate, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercial and educational uses.

These permissions are granted subject to one condition: proper attribution. Users must:

  • Credit the author(s) and cite Medical Insights (MI) as the original source of publication.

  • Provide a hyperlink to the CC BY 4.0 license.

  • Clearly indicate if the original work has been modified.

3. Rights and Responsibilities

  • Author Rights and Self-Archiving: Authors are expressly permitted and encouraged to deposit the final published PDF (version of record) in institutional repositories, subject repositories (e.g., PubMed Central where applicable), preprint servers, personal websites, and academic social networks including ResearchGate (https://www.researchgate.net/) and Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com/). Authors may reuse their own figures, tables, datasets, and text in future publications, grant applications, clinical guidelines, presentations, theses, or teaching materials without obtaining further permission, provided the original MI publication is appropriately cited.

  • Third-Party Content: Authors are solely responsible for obtaining written permission from the copyright holder for any third-party material (e.g., clinical images, patient photographs, diagnostic images, adapted figures, extended quotations, proprietary assessment tools, copyrighted datasets) included in their manuscript. Proof of permission must be provided to the editorial office upon request. Authors must also ensure compliance with patient privacy and confidentiality requirements, including obtaining appropriate consent for any identifiable patient information or images.

  • Publisher Archiving and Preservation: Medical Insights (MI) ensures the long-term preservation and perpetual accessibility of all published content through participation in trusted digital preservation networks. These include:

These systems create distributed archives among participating libraries worldwide, guaranteeing that all content remains permanently available to the medical and scientific community even in the event the journal ceases publication.

4. Ethical Standards and Scholarly Integrity

Authors must confirm that their submission is original, has not been published elsewhere, and is not under simultaneous consideration by another publication. Manuscripts must be free from plagiarism, data fabrication, image manipulation, or any other unethical practices. Medical Insights (MI) adheres to the principles, policies, and flowcharts of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) : https://publicationethics.org. The journal also follows international standards for medical publishing, including:

Any allegations of plagiarism, copyright infringement, data fabrication, image manipulation, ethical approval violations, lack of patient consent, or other misconduct will be investigated promptly and thoroughly in accordance with COPE and ICMJE guidelines.

5. Patient Privacy and Consent

For any manuscript containing case reports, clinical images, or other information that could potentially identify individual patients, authors must obtain written informed consent from the patient (or legal guardian) for publication. A statement confirming consent must be included in the manuscript. Patient identifiers should be removed wherever possible to protect privacy.

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