Open Access Policy

Health Nexus: Digital Health and Medical AI is a fully open-access journal. All articles and other scholarly content published by the journal are made freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges, registration requirements, access fees, or embargo periods.

The journal supports the principle that scholarly knowledge should be accessible to researchers, clinicians, healthcare professionals, policymakers, patients, educators, institutions, and the public without unnecessary financial or technical barriers.

1. Open-Access Model

The journal operates under a Gold Open Access publishing model. The final published version of each article is openly accessible on the journal website from the date of publication.

Readers may access the full text of published content without:

  • Paying a subscription or access fee
  • Registering for an account
  • Belonging to a subscribing institution
  • Waiting for the expiration of an embargo period
  • Requesting permission merely to read, download, or link to the article

The open-access status of an article is not affected by the author’s country, institutional affiliation, funding status, ability to pay a publication fee, or eligibility for a waiver.

2. Open-Access Licence

Unless otherwise stated on the published article, content published in Health Nexus: Digital Health and Medical AI is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence:

CC BY 4.0

Under this licence, users may:

  • Read and download the work
  • Copy and redistribute the work in any medium or format
  • Print, archive, and preserve the work
  • Translate the work
  • Adapt, remix, transform, or build upon the work
  • Use the work for teaching, research, clinical education, policy development, and other lawful purposes
  • Use the work for commercial as well as non-commercial purposes
  • Use the work for text and data mining, computational analysis, indexing, and machine processing

These permissions apply provided that users comply with the attribution and other conditions of the CC BY 4.0 licence.

3. Attribution Requirements

Users who reproduce, distribute, translate, adapt, or otherwise reuse published material must provide appropriate attribution.

Attribution should include, where reasonably practicable:

  • The name or names of the author or authors
  • The title of the article or other work
  • The name of the journal
  • The year of publication
  • The volume, issue, article number, or page range where applicable
  • The article DOI or permanent publication link
  • A statement that the work is licensed under CC BY 4.0
  • A link to the CC BY 4.0 licence
  • An indication of whether the material has been modified, translated, shortened, or adapted

Attribution must not imply that the authors, editors, journal, or publisher endorse the user, the reuse, the adapted material, or any associated product, service, organisation, or conclusion.

Suggested attribution:

[Author name or names]. “[Article title].” Health Nexus: Digital Health and Medical AI [volume], no. [issue] ([year]): [article number or page range]. [DOI]. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

4. Copyright Ownership

Authors retain copyright in their published articles unless a different arrangement is required by law, employment, institutional policy, or another disclosed rights agreement.

By accepting publication, authors grant Panorama Scholarly Group and the journal the non-exclusive right to:

  • Publish the final Version of Record
  • Identify the journal as the original publisher of the Version of Record
  • Distribute, preserve, archive, index, and communicate the article
  • Produce authorised electronic, print, metadata, accessibility, preservation, and machine-readable versions
  • Deposit or transmit the article and its metadata to indexing, archiving, preservation, discovery, and research infrastructures

This publishing right does not transfer copyright ownership from the authors to the publisher.

The recommended copyright and licence notice for published articles is:

© [Year] The Author(s). Published by Panorama Scholarly Group. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0).

5. Author Self-Archiving

Authors may deposit and share versions of their work without an embargo, subject to accurate identification of the version and compliance with any third-party rights.

Authors may ordinarily deposit:

  • The submitted manuscript
  • The accepted manuscript
  • The final published Version of Record

Permitted locations include:

  • Personal or professional websites
  • Institutional repositories
  • Subject repositories
  • Funder-designated repositories
  • Non-commercial academic networks
  • Course websites and digital learning environments

Where the Version of Record is deposited, authors should retain the journal citation, DOI, copyright notice, licence statement, and a link to the original publication.

Where an earlier manuscript version is deposited, the record should clearly identify the version and should be updated with the citation and DOI of the Version of Record after publication.

6. Preprints

Posting a manuscript on a recognised preprint server does not normally prevent submission to the journal, provided that the preprint is disclosed during submission and does not conflict with applicable ethical, legal, confidentiality, or intellectual-property obligations.

Authors should provide the preprint title, platform, posting date, and persistent identifier. Following publication, authors are encouraged to update the preprint record with the full journal citation and DOI of the Version of Record.

A preprint must not be represented as peer reviewed or as the final published journal article.

7. Text and Data Mining

Published content may be used for lawful text and data mining, machine learning, natural-language processing, bibliometric analysis, indexing, automated extraction, and other computational research under the terms of CC BY 4.0.

Users may download, analyse, transform, and process openly licensed article content without requesting separate permission, provided that:

  • Appropriate attribution is provided where the resulting use requires attribution
  • The use complies with applicable law
  • Third-party material and excluded content are respected
  • No false claim of endorsement is made
  • The integrity and provenance of scholarly content are not misrepresented

Automated access should be conducted responsibly and must not intentionally impair the security, stability, or availability of the journal platform.

8. Reuse in Teaching, Research, and Clinical Practice

Articles may be reused in lectures, course packs, presentations, training materials, systematic reviews, clinical guidelines, policy documents, databases, repositories, and other scholarly or professional resources under CC BY 4.0.

Open-access publication does not mean that an article constitutes individual medical advice, regulatory approval, professional certification, or endorsement of a particular technology, product, clinical practice, or healthcare decision.

Users remain responsible for evaluating the quality, applicability, limitations, and current status of published evidence before relying on it in research, clinical care, public-health practice, policy, or commercial development.

9. Translations and Adaptations

Translations and adaptations are permitted under CC BY 4.0, provided that the original work is attributed and all modifications are clearly identified.

A translated or adapted work should state that:

  • It is a translation, adaptation, abridgement, or derivative of the original article
  • The original article is available at the stated DOI or permanent link
  • The authors, journal, and publisher did not necessarily prepare, review, approve, or endorse the adapted version
  • The person or organisation producing the adaptation is responsible for its accuracy

Users must not present an unofficial translation or adaptation as the journal’s authoritative Version of Record.

10. Third-Party Material

The CC BY 4.0 licence applies only to material for which the authors or publisher have authority to grant the licence.

Some articles may contain third-party material, including:

  • Previously published figures or tables
  • Clinical images
  • Photographs
  • Maps
  • Questionnaires or assessment instruments
  • Proprietary datasets
  • Software interfaces
  • Logos or trademarks
  • Material reproduced under a separate licence or permission

Where third-party material is excluded from the article’s Creative Commons licence, this should be indicated in the relevant credit line, caption, note, or rights statement.

Users who wish to reuse excluded material are responsible for determining whether their intended use is permitted by law and, where necessary, obtaining permission from the relevant rights holder.

11. Rights Not Granted by the Open Licence

CC BY 4.0 licenses copyright and certain related rights. It does not automatically grant every right that may be relevant to a particular use.

Separate restrictions or permissions may apply to:

  • Privacy and data-protection rights
  • Patient confidentiality
  • Publicity and personality rights
  • Moral rights
  • Patent rights
  • Trademark rights
  • Database-access agreements
  • Contractual restrictions
  • Research-participant consent conditions
  • Institutional or national security requirements

Open-access publication does not authorise the disclosure or reuse of identifiable patient information, restricted datasets, confidential records, or other material that cannot lawfully be made open.

12. Journal and Publisher Materials

Unless expressly stated otherwise, the CC BY 4.0 licence applied to individual articles does not automatically apply to:

  • The journal title
  • The journal logo
  • The Panorama Scholarly Group name or logo
  • Publisher trademarks
  • Website design and interface elements
  • Editorial management systems
  • Internal editorial records
  • Reviewer reports and confidential correspondence

No permission is granted to use journal or publisher names, marks, or visual identities in a manner that falsely suggests sponsorship, endorsement, affiliation, or official status.

13. Article Processing Charges and Open Access

Open-access rights are determined by the article’s licence and publication status, not by whether a particular author personally paid an article processing charge.

Where article processing charges apply, the amount, payment procedure, waiver arrangements, and refund conditions are stated separately in the journal’s APC and Waiver Policy.

Payment, non-payment, waiver, discount, institutional support, or third-party funding must not influence:

  • Initial editorial screening
  • Reviewer selection
  • Peer-review reports
  • Editorial decisions
  • The application of publication-ethics standards

No publication fee guarantees acceptance.

14. Metadata, Indexing, and Preservation

The journal may make article metadata and bibliographic information available to scholarly infrastructures for discovery, indexing, citation, preservation, interoperability, and research assessment.

Metadata may include:

  • Article title and abstract
  • Author names and affiliations
  • ORCID identifiers
  • Keywords
  • Funding information
  • Reference lists
  • DOIs and related identifiers
  • Licence information
  • Correction, retraction, or version information

The journal may deposit articles or metadata with indexing services, repositories, digital-preservation systems, libraries, registries, and other scholarly communication services.

15. Permanent Access and Version of Record

The journal intends published scholarly content to remain permanently accessible as part of the scholarly record.

Corrections, expressions of concern, retractions, withdrawals, and other post-publication notices do not normally remove the original bibliographic record. Where an article is corrected or retracted, the journal will clearly identify its status and link the relevant records.

Article removal is reserved for exceptional circumstances involving overriding legal requirements, serious privacy violations, or an immediate and substantial risk of harm that cannot be addressed through correction or retraction.

16. No Additional Restrictions

Users may not impose legal terms, digital-rights controls, or technological measures that prevent others from exercising rights granted under CC BY 4.0.

Reuse must not:

  • Misrepresent the original authorship or source
  • Remove required attribution or licence information
  • Suggest false endorsement by the authors, journal, or publisher
  • Represent modified material as the unaltered Version of Record
  • Use the journal or publisher identity deceptively

17. Relationship between Copyright and Licence

Copyright ownership and open licensing are related but distinct.

Under the journal’s standard model:

  • The authors retain copyright.
  • The journal publishes and identifies the Version of Record.
  • The authors make the article available to the public under CC BY 4.0.
  • Users receive reuse rights directly under the Creative Commons licence.

The open licence does not eliminate copyright. It provides advance permission for specified uses, subject to compliance with the licence conditions.

18. Licence Information in Published Articles

The journal should display the applicable copyright and licence statement on or with each published article, including in the HTML and PDF versions where technically practicable.

The article record should identify:

  • The copyright holder
  • The year of publication
  • The applicable Creative Commons licence
  • A link to the licence
  • The DOI or permanent article identifier

If an article is subject to a different licence because of a specific legal, governmental, institutional, or contractual requirement, that licence must be stated clearly on the article. Any exception must be approved before publication and must not be described inaccurately as CC BY 4.0.

19. Questions and Permission Requests

Separate permission is generally unnecessary for uses already authorised by CC BY 4.0.

A permission request may still be necessary when:

  • The proposed use involves material excluded from the Creative Commons licence
  • The proposed use involves a journal or publisher trademark
  • The user seeks rights beyond those held by the authors or publisher
  • The proposed use involves confidential, identifiable, proprietary, or restricted material
  • The licensing status of particular content is unclear

Users are responsible for reviewing the rights statement and credit lines attached to the specific article and material they intend to reuse.

20. Applicable Open-Access Standard

The journal’s open-access policy is intended to provide:

  • Immediate and free public access to published content
  • No embargo period
  • No reader-registration requirement
  • Clear copyright ownership
  • Clear and standardised reuse rights
  • Machine-readable licence information where technically practicable
  • Support for lawful sharing, adaptation, preservation, indexing, and computational reuse

The official licence terms are available from Creative Commons:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence