Repository Policy

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Repository Policy

Because Journal of Innovations in Pharmaceutical and Biological Sciences (JIPBS) publishes under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), authors already have broad, standing permission to deposit and share their published work — no separate request is required.

Authors May, at Any Time, Self-Archive:

  • Preprint version — the version of the article before peer review
  • Postprint version — the final author-accepted manuscript after peer review, before publisher formatting
  • Publisher's PDF version — the final published version of the article

...in any Open Archives Initiative (OAI)-compliant repository, personal website, or institutional repository, with no embargo period.

Conditions

  • The original publication in JIPBS must be clearly cited, including a link to the published version where possible
  • Reuse of the deposited version must comply with the terms of the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license — specifically, no commercial use, and any adapted or derivative work must be shared under the same license

Recommended Repositories

Authors are encouraged to deposit in a recognized institutional or subject-specific repository (e.g., PubMed Central, an institutional repository, or a discipline-specific archive relevant to pharmaceutical or biological sciences) to maximize discoverability, consistent with the practices described in the SHERPA/RoMEO (Open Policy Finder) directory of publisher self-archiving policies.

This Repository Policy applies to author copies deposited independently of the journal, and operates alongside — but separately from — JIPBS's own Archiving Policy, which describes the journal's official preservation of its published archive through the Internet Archive and the PKP Preservation Network.