Open Access

Open access journal

This journal is a peer reviewed, subsidized open access journal where the PBJ-Associação Porto Biomedical (PBJ-Porto Biomedical Society) pays for the publishing costs incurred by the journal. Authors do not have to pay any Article Processing Charge or Open Access Publication Fee.

Access Rights

All articles published open access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read, download, copy and distribute.

User Rights

Permitted third party (re)use is defined by the following Creative Commons user license:

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND):

Allows users to copy and distribute the Article, provided this is not done for commercial purposes and further does not permit distribution of the Article if it is changed or edited in any way, and provided the user gives appropriate credit (with a link to the formal publication through the relevant DOI), provides a link to the license, and that the licensor is not represented as endorsing the use made of the work. The full details of the license are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ .

Author Rights

For open access publishing, this journal uses a copyright transfer agreement. Authors will transfer copyright to PBJ-Associação Porto Biomedical (PBJ-Porto Biomedical Society), but will have the right to share their article in the same way permitted to third parties under the relevant user license, as well as certain scholarly usage rights.

Publishing Schedule

Porto Biomedical Journal  publishes 6 issues a year.

Issues are published during the first month of the period: January, March, May, July, September and November.

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