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Authors Declaration and Warranties

By submitting any research article for the purposes of publication by Dove Medical Press Limited ("DMP") you must certify and warrant that:

  1. You have been authorised by any co authors to submit the research article; and

    (a) You are the sole author(s) of the article and are legally able and entitled to submit the article and authorise DMP to publish the research article.  If the law requires that the article be published in the public domain, I/we will notify DMP at the time of submission. 

    (b) The research article is original, has not already been published in any other journal (medical, or otherwise) or is not currently under consideration for publication by another journal, and does not infringe any existing copyright or any other rights prescribed by law; 

    (c) The article contains nothing that is unlawful, defamatory, or which would, if published, constitute a breach of contract or of confidentiality; 

    (d) Due care, diligence and all other requisite investigations were carried out in the preparation of the research article(s) to ensure its accuracy.  To the best of your knowledge all statements contained in it purporting to be factual are true and correct. 

License Agreement

CC-BY-NC license: DMP publishes its articles under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license (CC-BY-NC). This allows for the non-commercial reuse of the published paper so long as the published paper is fully attributed. Commercial re-use can only be undertaken with the permission of the publisher. 

CC-BY license: DMP offers authors whose articles are funded by the organisations listed here (under the CC-BY heading) the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license. This license permits the reuse for commercial purposes, but still requires that the article is fully attributed. 

Commercial use of papers published under the Open Access model CC-BY-NC license

No papers published under a CC-BY-NC copyright license on the Dove Medical Press website may be reproduced, in any media or format, or linked to for any commercial purpose (eg. product support, etc) without the prior written consent of Dove Medical Press and payment to Dove Medical Press of an appropriate fee. For further information on commercial use of published papers please see sections 4 and 5 here.

Updated 31 August 2017