CC-BY Licence Funders

CC-BY-NC license

Dove Medical Press publishes many of 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 (see sections 4 and 5 here) can only be undertaken with the permission of the publisher.

CC-BY license

Dove Medical Press offers authors whose articles are funded by the following the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license. This license permits the reuse for commercial purposes, but still requires that the article is fully attributed.

• Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Brunel University London
• Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal (FCT)
• Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany)
• Kings College London
• National Institute for Health Research, UK (NIHR) 
• National Science Centre (Poland)
• Northumbria University
• Qatar National Library
• Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
• Swedish Research Council
  
• Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
• Telethon Foundation, Italy
• University of Oxford - MSD Open and Equitable Publishing Fund
• University of Sheffield
• University of Tübingen (Germany)
• Wellcome Trust
• Worldwide Cancer Research (WCR)

UKRI funded research:

• Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
• Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
• Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
• Innovate UK
• Medical Research Council (MRC)
• Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
• Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)

Charity Open Access Fund (COAF):

• Arthritis Research UK
• Bloodwise
• Breast Cancer Now
• British Heart Foundation
• Cancer Research UK
• Parkinson’s UK
• Wellcome Trust

Updated 24 August 2023