Copyright Policy
RMC is an open access journal and the full text of all the articles is freely accessible without any restrictions, on the Web after peer acceptance. Articles are published and distributed under the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.. Therefore, any work that is submitted to RMC is understood by the authors to be original and has not been published earlier or simultaneously considered for publication elsewhere. Upon submitting the manuscript for publication, the corresponding author on behalf of all the co-authors in the manuscript will be required to fill and sign a Copyright and Author Consent Form. Regarding any information written/informed/reported in the submitted manuscript, the authors will solely be liable. While we do not ask the authors to submit the quantitative or qualitative data collection documents and the coded sheets, we are able to request for them at any time during the publication process as well as afterwards the article had being published. However, it is the author’s duty to seek and secure written consent from the holder of the copyright to use and reproduce text, illustrations, tables, etc. that have appeared in other journals electronic or print media. Essential information concerning conflict of interest will be produced after the article. If no conflict of interest exists, the following sentence will be used: It writes, 'The authors report no conflict of interest.’” Authors are asked to provide information on any sponsorship received from any institution in relation to the given work. The specific disclosures that should be available to the readers will be established by the editor(s).
Authors are restricted not to put the work anywhere on the internet through any mode of communication from the time the work has been submitted to RMC journal until the final decision regarding the paper has been passed to the authors. A paper, if accepted under any of the RMC the authors may not put full text of the work on any website, blog, forum, board or at any place in any from until RMC Journal publishes the paper in full.
The authors may however, post the title, author names, their affiliation and address and the abstract, with the following statement written on the first page of the paper–“The manuscript has been accepted for publishing in RMC Journals”. As for distribution or reposting of the article after its publication, full citation of the journal is to be added and it is allowed and even advised by RMC to perform relevant efforts for spreading the research. It should be noted that all articles that appear in RMC journals are open access articles, which are published and distributed under the license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which allows the use of reproduction, distribution, adaptation to derived work and commercial use to be made for the original work provided that the original work must be cited and authors and the publisher must be identified.
Every single author who submits those manuscripts to RMC Journals as well as all the authors whose articles will be published will retain their full copyright of the articles. However, the author(s) allow RMC Journal, its editors, publishers, owners and other persons associated and other users/readers to use the article in the manner stated in the License Agreement section below. In the future, RMC may copy articles in any format in case they desire to produce printed copies. However, subject to the license granted below, we retain the rights herein to reproduce the articles from the author in the manner stated above.
