Open Access License & Reuse of Content

When the journal first began in 2010, the Open Access movement was a relatively new development in academic publishing. Today it is an important consideration for determining which journal to submit to.

Open-Access journals provide an academic publishing model that enables global, barrier-free, immediate open access to the full text of research articles for the best interests of the scientific community and the general public. Open Access journals are no different from traditional subscription-based journals; they undergo the same peer-review and quality control process as any other scholarly journal.

The Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal is an Open-Access journal that applies the Creative Commons Attribution License (Attribution 3.0 Unported; full legal text of the license is available here), under which anyone is free to copy, distribute and display the work; to make derivative works; to make commercial use of the work without receiving permission from the authors or the publishers, under the following conditions:

  • The original authors and source are properly acknowledged and cited.  You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
  • For any reuse or distribution, it must be made clear to others what the license terms of this work are.
  • Any of these conditions can be waived if the author gives permission. To receive that waiver, you should contact the corresponding author.

Appropriate attribution can be provided by simply citing the original article (e.g. Hershko A. Science as an Adventure - Lessons for the Young Scientist. RMMJ 2010;1:e001. doi:10.5041/RMMJ.10001).

Permissions for reuse of an article are not needed from the journal.

Reusing text, tables, or figures

When presenting copied text, place quotation marks properly around the text and reference the quote.  

When copying a figure or table, write in the legend, "From Reference & REF number, used under the Creative Commons CC-BY 3.0 license."