Open Access Policy

Aiming to support the idea of accessing information most easily, TPHB adopts an open-access policy and supports the idea of requiring peer-reviewed journals to become open access appearing in the Budapest Open Access Initiative signed on September 12, 2012. Thus, the open-access policies adopted by the editorial board of TPHB can be found at http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai-10-recommendations.

Budapest Open Access Initiative defines the concept of “open access” as [peer-reviewed works’] “… free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.”

In this respect, authors hold the copyrights of their manuscripts as well as the final papers. The authors hold the copyright without any restrictions. Copyright transfer agreements and similar agreements are not requested from the authors. Solely for keeping the integrity and quality all TPHB content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.  This license terms are not binding for authors. TPHB full-text articles are published online immediately after their procedures and are openly and freely accessible afterwards. No fees or subscriptions are required for access to the full-text articles. In thinking of sharing knowledge/information in the expansion of scientific developments, open-access policies promise great potential for researchers and readers. Based on this perspective, TPHB invites its readers to freely access and use its published works by referring to their sources and authors. The readers do not need to obtain permission from the authors or the publisher.

Creative Commons

All articles published by TPHB are licensed with “Creative Commons Attribution License (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND)”. This license entitles all parties to use scientific work for a non-profit purpose under the condition of providing references. Open access is an approach that eases interdisciplinary communication and encourages cooperation among different disciplines. Therefore, TPHB contributes to the field of social media research by providing more access to its articles and a more transparent review process. The publication processes of TPHB are executed by the manuals of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), National Information Standards Organization (NISO, Council of Science Editors (CSE), and European Association of Science Editors (EASE).

Authors who send their manuscripts to the Trends in Public Health and Behaviour (TPHB) read and approve the text of the responsibility statement on the screen of the control list when they upload their studies on the online system of the journal. By marking the box “I warrant that it conforms with the items above” at the end of the control list, it is deemed to have accepted the text of the responsibility statement.

Author(s) declare(s) to approve the statements at below:

  • The manuscript sent to be published in the Trends in Public Health and Behaviour (TPHB) is the author(s) own original work.
  • A part or the whole of this work has been not published and has not been sent for publication elsewhere.
  • All the authors have read and approved the manuscript as it is. They all acknowledge that it has been sent to TPHB for publication.
  • The author(s) are responsible for the content and information presented in the manuscript.
  • All approved rights such as patents, etc. copyrights are of the author(s).
  • The author(s) can use the whole work in their books, courses, oral presentations, and conferences.
  • They have the right to reproduce the work as a whole or in part for their use.
  • That the text, figures, and documents in the article do not violate the copyrights of the third parties, the publisher is not responsible for any claims or lawsuits to be made by third parties due to copyright infringement, and all responsibility belongs to authors.