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Philosophy of Frontiers in Public Health Services and Systems Research

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Who Can Submit?

Anyone may submit an original manuscript to be considered for publication in Frontiers in Public Health Services and Systems Research provided he or she is the lead author, or the authorized agent of the author(s) and copyright holder (if different from the author(s)) to the work being submitted or is authorized by the copyright owner or owners to submit the manuscript. Authors are the initial owners of the copyrights to their works (an exception in the non-academic world to this might exist if the authors have, as a condition of employment, agreed to transfer copyright to their employer).

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General Submission Rules

Submitted manuscripts cannot have been previously published, nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic). Please note: "publication" in a working-paper series does not constitute prior publication. In addition, by submitting material to Frontiers in Public Health Services and Systems Research, the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that he or she will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at Frontiers in Public Health Services and Systems Research. If you have concerns about the submission terms for Frontiers in Public Health Services and Systems Research, please contact the editors.

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Formatting Requirements

Frontiers in Public Health Services and Systems Research has some general rules about the formatting of manuscripts upon initial submission; please read the Author Instructions carefully before you submit a manuscript. There are, in addition, rules governing the formatting of the final submission. When your manuscript has been accepted for publication, you will be sent a detailed list of requirements for the final formatting of your article for publication.

It is understood that the current state of technology of Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) is such that there are no, and can be no, guarantees that documents in PDF will work perfectly with all possible hardware and software configurations that readers may have.

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UK Publication Rights and UKnowledge Attribution

If the Journal agrees to publish the article, to enable the Journal to disseminate your work to the fullest extent, you grant to the Journal, its successors and assigns, a royalty-free, non-exclusive, irrevocable license, including the right to publish limited portions of the article for reference, publicity, or search purposes, in any format including without limitation, print media, all forms of electronic media, social media, all whether currently known, currently unknown, or not yet developed. The license also entitles the Journal to authorize that the bibliographic information and full text of the article be accessible for harvesting and reuse by third-party discovery tools such as search engines and indexing services in order to maximize the online discoverability of the article. If the article has more than one author, you must have the authority to act on behalf of all other authors.

You as the author and the copyright holder may redistribute and reuse your article as you see fit. If you post the article online, please acknowledge its source of first publication by providing the article’s bibliographic information (i.e., journal title, publication date, volume, and issue) and a hypertext link to the Journal’s record of the article, e.g., http://uknowledge.uky.edu/frontiersinphssr/vol2/iss2/2/.

Readers may use the Journal content as permitted by fair use. Quotations of an article should be accompanied by a reference of its bibliographic information and a hypertext link to the Journal’s record of the article.

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Open Access Policy

This is a Gold-Level Open Access (Gold OA) journal, which means that all content is freely available without charge to authors, readers, or their institutions. Readers are allowed to download, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the authors.

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The failure of UKnowledge to exercise or enforce any right or provision in the policies or the Submission Agreement does not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any term of the Submission Agreement or these policies is found to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Submission Agreement and these policies remain in full force and effect. These policies and the Submission Agreement constitute the entire agreement between UKnowledge and the Author(s) regarding submission of the article.

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