Policies

OPEN ACCESS POLICY

Veterinary World 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 in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

All articles published by Veterinary World are made freely and permanently accessible online. All articles to Veterinary World are posted online immediately as they are ready for publication. All articles will be assigned a DOI number (Digital Object Identifier) whereby they become searchable and citable without delay.

The articles in Veterinary World are open access articles licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.

CROSSMARK POLICY

CrossMark is an initiative to provide a standard way for readers to locate the current version of a piece of content. By applying the Crossmark button, Veterinary World is committing to maintaining the content it publishes, and to alerting readers to changes if and when they occur.

Clicking on the Crossmark button will tell you the current status of a document, and may also give you additional publication record information about the document.

The Veterinary World content that will have the CrossMark logo is restricted to current and future journal content and is limited to specific publication types.

For general author guidelines and information, please see: Resources for Veterinary World Authors.

Correction and Retraction Policies

Veterinary World is committed to uphold the integrity of the literature and publishes Errata, Expressions of Concerns or Retraction Notices dependent on the situation and in accordance with the COPE Retraction Guidelines. In all cases, these notices are linked to the original article.

More information on Veterinary World's guidelines can be found here: Publishing Ethics for journal

  • Last updated on 19-02-2024