Clear, author-friendly licensing for maximum ophthalmic knowledge dissemination.
Open Access Under CC BY 4.0
JOS publishes all articles under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, ensuring worldwide accessibility for eye care professionals.
- Share: Copy and redistribute in any medium or format
- Adapt: Remix, transform, and build upon the material
- Commercial Use: Use for commercial purposes
The only requirement is proper attribution to the original authors.
JOS operates on an author-retains-copyright model:
Authors Can
- Share preprints and published versions
- Use the work in future compilations
- Present at conferences
- Self-archive without embargo
Publisher Rights
- First public distribution
- Inclusion in indexing services
- Apply CC BY 4.0 license
- Permanent archival
JOS supports preprint posting. Authors may post manuscripts to recognized servers (medRxiv, bioRxiv) prior to submission. Upon publication, update with a link to the Version of Record.
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Some authors are required by their funders to make their research publicly available. Under the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy, Author Accepted Manuscripts accepted for publication on or after July 1, 2025, must be submitted to PubMed Central upon acceptance and made publicly available without embargo on the official date of publication.
What JOS provides: JOS publishes the Version of Record under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. The journal also permits authors to deposit their Author Accepted Manuscript in funder-designated repositories. Upon acceptance, we confirm the accepted manuscript version and record the funder and grant information supplied by the authors.
Author responsibility: JOS does not currently deposit manuscripts in PubMed Central on behalf of authors. Authors are responsible for determining which funder requirements apply, initiating the appropriate repository submission and completing any required NIHMS approval steps.
Eligibility and successful processing through PubMed Central or NIHMS are determined according to the relevant funder and NIH/NLM requirements.
Important: The deposit of an individual article in PubMed Central may result in that article appearing in PubMed. It does not mean that JOS is indexed in MEDLINE, included in the PMC Journal List or that all JOS articles are available through PubMed. The journal's current coverage is listed on the Indexing page.
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