Open Access Policy and Licensing

Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine (JRM) is published Open Access and authors retain full copyright to their manuscript. Articles are published immediately upon approval of the final proof and payment of the publication fee. All articles are assigned a DOI number (Digital Object Identifier).

JRM articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license (CC-BY 4.0 license). This license permits sharing, adapting, and using the material for any purpose, including commercial use, with the condition of providing full attribution to the original publication.

When publishing articles in JRM, the author(s) grant first publication rights to the Foundation of Rehabilitation Information. In consideration of the publication of the article, the authors grant to Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine the licence to 1) publish, reproduce, distribute, display and store the article worldwide in all forms, formats and media now known or as developed in the future, including print, electronic and digital forms, and 2) to translate the article into other languages, create adaptations, summaries or extracts of the article. Please note that authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission for reproducing copyrighted material from other sources.