Open Access policy

Interciencia médica publishes its contents in Open Access, with the aim that anyone with an Internet connection can freely access scientific, academic, and cultural information without any economic, technical, or legal restrictions. Our open access purpose is based on Budapest (BOAI, 2002) definitions  that defines open access as: "free availability on the public Internet, so that any user can read, download, copy, distribute, print, with the possibility to search or link all the texts of these articles, collect them for exhaustive indexing, use them as data for software, or use them for any other legal purpose, without financial, legal or technical barriers, other than the fundamental one of gaining access to the Internet itself", that of Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (2003) which also states that authors must guarantee all users equally, the free, irrevocable and worldwide right to access a scholarly work; the same as the license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and publicly display it; and to make and distribute derivative works in any digital medium, for any responsible purpose, provided that proper attribution of authorship is given and The Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing (2003) that defines scientific research and its objectives as: "an interdependent process where each experiment is informed by the results of others. Scientists who do research and the professional societies that represent them have a vested interest in ensuring that research results are disseminated as immediately, widely, and effectively as possible".