Clear, author-friendly licensing for maximum clinical knowledge dissemination.
Open Access Under CC BY 4.0
JCCI publishes all articles under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, ensuring your case reports are immediately accessible worldwide.
Open access licensing removes barriers to clinical knowledge, allowing healthcare professionals, researchers, and students to access, share, and build upon your work without restrictions.
Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, others are free to:
- Share: Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
- Adapt: Remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose
- Commercial Use: Use the material for commercial purposes
The only requirement is proper attribution - users must credit the original authors and provide a link to the license.
JCCI operates on an author-retains-copyright model. Upon acceptance, authors grant Open Access Pub a non-exclusive license to publish. This means:
Authors Can
- Share preprints and published versions
- Use the work in future compilations
- Present at conferences
- Self-archive without embargo
Publisher Rights
- First public distribution
- Inclusion in indexing services
- Apply CC BY 4.0 license
- Permanent archival
If your article contains copyrighted material from others, you must obtain permission and provide proof during submission. Ensure all third-party content is clearly attributed.
Important: If third-party material is under a license incompatible with CC BY 4.0, contact our editorial office before submission.
JCCI supports preprint posting. Authors may post manuscripts to recognized preprint servers prior to submission. Upon publication, update your preprint with a link to the final Version of Record.
For complete legal terms, visit: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Questions About Licensing?
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Journal of Clinical Case Reports and Images (JCCI) | ISSN: 2641-5518
Public Access and Funder Compliance
Some authors are required by their funders to make their research publicly available. Under the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy, Author Accepted Manuscripts accepted for publication on or after July 1, 2025, must be submitted to PubMed Central upon acceptance and made publicly available without embargo on the official date of publication.
What JCCI provides: JCCI publishes the Version of Record under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. The journal also permits authors to deposit their Author Accepted Manuscript in funder-designated repositories. Upon acceptance, we confirm the accepted manuscript version and record the funder and grant information supplied by the authors.
Author responsibility: JCCI does not currently deposit manuscripts in PubMed Central on behalf of authors. Authors are responsible for determining which funder requirements apply, initiating the appropriate repository submission and completing any required NIHMS approval steps.
Eligibility and successful processing through PubMed Central or NIHMS are determined according to the relevant funder and NIH/NLM requirements.
Important: The deposit of an individual article in PubMed Central may result in that article appearing in PubMed. It does not mean that JCCI is indexed in MEDLINE, included in the PMC Journal List or that all JCCI articles are available through PubMed. The journal's current coverage is listed on the Indexing page.