Copyright and open access
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Dental and Medical Problems does not accept advertising and sponsorship. We are funded by Wroclaw Medical University, Poland, which is a public institution.
Open Access
Dental and Medical Problems is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. All articles are published in the Open Access model and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) License. The license is available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/.
The publisher and editors of Dental and Medical Problems support the principle of the Budapest Open Access Initiative: https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org
Copyright
By sending the manuscript the Authors confirm that they have not previously submitted it to another journal (except for abstracts of no more than 250 words) or published it elsewhere. All the submitted manuscripts should be accompanied by a cover letter including signed confirmation of the above and confirming that this publication has been approved by all co-authors (if any) as well as by the responsible authorities at the institution where the work has been carried out. The previously published materials should be accompanied by written consent for reprinting from the relevant Publishers. The Authors should obtain consent from persons whose images or statements, or plastic or photographic works of art were recorded within the manuscript, to their use in a manner specified in the license agreement. Authors are obliged to indicate the source and the author of tables, figures, photographs, etc.
Upon manuscript acceptance, all Authors sign a License Agreement, which is available as Appendix No. 9 to the Publishing Rules of Wroclaw Medical University Press. Under the License Agreement, the Authors grant the Publisher a non-exclusive and free-of-charge license to use the manuscript for an indefinite period on the territory of the entire world in the fields of exploitation stated in the License Agreement.
Manuscripts will be removed from the list qualified for publication if any Author fails to send their License Agreement by the indicated date.
The transfer of the Authors’ economic rights requires for its validity to be made in writing under pain of nullity. Any potential conflict of interest will be dealt with by the local court specific to the Publisher. Legal relations between the Publisher and the Authors are in accordance with the Polish law and with the international conventions binding on Poland.
Important!
Dental and Medical Problems has been signing License Agreements since January 2017. Before that, Authors transferred to the Publisher (Wroclaw Medical University) copyright to the article.