Open Access Policies

Actas Médicas (Ecuador) provides open access to its content based on the principle that offering the public free access to research helps a more significant global knowledge exchange.

Online availability for free.

Open access is the condition in which the copyright holder of an academic work grants rights to use it to others through an open license (Creative Commons or equivalent) that allows free and immediate access to the work and allows any user to read Please download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of the articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to the software, or use them for any other lawful purpose.

User rights

Authors, readers, and researchers who visit our website can access research articles published in our journal Actas Médicas (Ecuador). The documents can be shared freely in compliance with the regulations of the rights of the authors who have the intellectual property of the articles. These rights correspond to the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.es

Author rights

The authors who publish in Actas Médicas (Ecuador) maintain the intellectual property of the content of the articles; they can publish the article in institutional repositories and other dissemination platforms citing the primary source Actas Médicas (Ecuador). The publication is made in two languages ​​English and Spanish, in PDF and EPUB format; other formats, such as XML, can be requested via the contact email.