Open Access is a publishing model that provides immediate, subscription-free access to the full text of published articles. Moreover, authors who publish in Open Access journals retain the copyright of their article. All articles published by Population Medicine are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication. To ensure digital preservation for the future, our electronic publications are archived with Portico, as for all publications of EUEP.
Population Medicine is an open-access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.

Copyright
Authors submitting their work to Population Medicine retain the copyright of their work without restrictions.
The default license for articles published in Population Medicine is the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Authors who wish to publish their work under a commercial license are also able to choose between the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0) or the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-ND 4.0).

Article Processing Charges
Population Medicine has been partially funded through the Smart Specialisation Strategy of Crete (S3), an innovation policy concept to support regional prioritization in innovative sectors, fields or technologies. The European Commission introduced the S3 concept in the EU Cohesion Policy 2014-2020 as an ‘ex-ante conditionality’ for European regions to obtain funding for research and innovation from the European Regional Development Fund. Hence, in Population Medicine there are no Article Processing Charges (APC) or any related subscription costs, when authors are from Academia/Non Governmental Organisations. For manuscripts submitted by authors affiliated with an industry (i.e. Pharmaceutical industry) an APC of 1950 Euro (plus VAT where applicable) is levied.
In addition, if a commercial license is applied (CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-ND 4.0), then a commercial license charge of 1000 E (plus VAT where applicable) is levied.

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