Copyright Policy
I. Open Access Statement
Journal of Clinical Pediatrics is an open access journal, which flipped to open access mode from the first issue of 2024. Once an article is published, readers can immediately and permanently read and download it for free via the journal's official website. Articles published from 2014 to 2023 have been changed to open access and can be downloaded for free from the journal's website. Articles published before 2014 are not open access, and the copyright is held by the editorial office.
II. Licensing Policy
The allowed third-party reuse of all open access articles published in the journal is defined by the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This license allows users to copy and redistribute the articles of the journal in any medium or format, provided they adhere to the following terms:
Third-party users must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes to the articles were made. Users may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the journal endorses the use. Users may not use the articles for commercial purposes. If users re-mix, transform, or build upon the articles, they may not distribute the modified articles. The full details of the license are available at:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
III. Copyright Transfer
All authors agree to publish this article in Journal of Clinical Pediatrics and agree to transfer the financial rights of the copyright of the entire paper and its related attachments to the Editorial Office of Journal of Clinical Pediatrics. The authors retain the personal rights of the work. The term of the transfer is the same as the term of copyright protection. The editorial office has the right to license domestic and international literature search systems and networks, database systems for index and inclusion, and has the right to publish and use this article through various formats and media, or in other languages. After publishing, authors and third parties may reproduce, disseminate, and use their articles under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. The work cannot be used for commercial purpose.
IV. Online Accessibility & Repository
The full text of all articles since 2014 can be downloaded free of charge from the official journal website. In addition to open access on the official journal website, the full text of the journal's articles are also stored in the databases of CNKI, Wanfang Data, Chaoxing and Weipu, etc. Readers can also access the above-mentioned databases and platforms to obtain the articles published by the journal.
In addition, authors may deposit all versions of their articles in an institutional or other repository of the authors' choice. However, it is necessary to indicate the articles' publication information in the metadata in the institutional or other repository and use that as a recommended way of citation.