Open Access Policy
JBRES is a fully open-access journal. Every article is permanently and freely available from the moment of publication.
Our Open Access Commitment
The Journal of Biomedical Research & Environmental Sciences (JBRES) is a fully gold open-access journal. This means that every article we publish is freely available to anyone in the world immediately upon publication — with no subscription required, no paywall, no embargo period, and no access fees for readers.
We believe that scientific knowledge belongs to humanity, and that restricting access to research findings slows scientific progress and exacerbates global inequality. Open access is not a business model for us — it is a fundamental commitment.
Creative Commons License
All articles published in JBRES are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Under this license:
- You are free to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format; Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially
- Under the following terms: Attribution — you must give appropriate credit to the original author(s), provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made
Authors retain copyright. By publishing with JBRES, authors grant a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to publish, distribute, transmit, and make the work publicly available, and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship.
Why Open Access Matters
- Greater visibility — open articles are read and cited up to 2–3x more than subscription-gated articles
- Faster scientific progress — findings are immediately available to build upon, speeding the pace of discovery
- Global equity — researchers in low-income countries can access the same knowledge as those at wealthy institutions
- Public benefit — taxpayer-funded research becomes accessible to the public, policymakers, and practitioners who need it
- Funder compliance — meets open access mandates from major funders including NIH, UKRI, Wellcome Trust, and the European Research Council
Funder Compliance
JBRES open-access publishing meets the requirements of the following major research funders' open access policies:
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) — USA
- UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
- Wellcome Trust
- European Research Council (ERC)
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
If your funder has specific open access requirements not listed here, please contact us — we will confirm compliance.
Self-Archiving Policy
JBRES supports author self-archiving at all stages:
- Pre-print — authors may post the submitted manuscript on preprint servers (bioRxiv, medRxiv, SSRN) before or during review
- Accepted manuscript — may be self-archived immediately upon acceptance
- Published version — the final version of record (PDF and HTML) may be deposited in any repository immediately upon publication