Open Access
Open Access Statement
Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery flipped to an open access journal since the 1st issue of 2024. Since then, all articles once published are immediately and permanently available for readers to read and download free of charge. Articles published from 2012 to 2023 have been converted open access, and readers can freely access and download them from our website. Articles published before 2012 are not open access. The copyright of these articles is held by the journal’s editorial office.
License Policy
For all open access articles published by this journal, permitted authors and third-party reuse of the articles is defined by the following user license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This license allows reusers to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as the license terms below are followed: reusers must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. Reusers may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses the use. Reusers may not use the material for commercial purposes. If reusers remix, transform, or build upon the material, they may not distribute the modified material. The full details of the license are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Copyright Policy
Once a manuscript is accepted and published by the journal, authors are required to sign the Copyright Transfer Agreement with the editorial office of the journal. All authors of the article agree to transfer the copyright of the manuscript and its related supplementary materials, including but not limited to the rights of reproduction, distribution, distribution through information network, broadcasting, performance, translation, compilation, and adaptation to the editorial office of the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. The transfer is valid for the duration of copyright protection and applies worldwide. The authors agree to the journal's open access policy, which allows the authors or the third-party users to copy and distribute the article under the Creative Commons license "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International" (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
Article Archiving Policy
All articles published in this journal are digitally archived, with both the print and electronic versions stored in the editorial office. To ensure data security, all information and related materials, such as additional information and forms provided by the authors during submission, are also archived in the editorial office. In addition to the journal's official website, all articles published historically are fully stored in CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure), Wanfang, Weipu, Chaoxing, and Xinhua Net Academic China. Readers can also access these articles through these databases or platforms.
Author Self-Archiving
The journal allows authors to store all versions of their articles in institutional or other repositories of their choice. The article's metadata in the repository must include the standardized journal publication information and be cited as the recommended reference.
