Repository Policy

Journal of Gandhara Medical and Dental Sciences (JGMDS) permit Author(s) to self-archive and make their article publicly accessible immediately on their employer's internal website; their institutional and/or funder repositories.

JGMDS strongly encourage authors to deposit the Version of Record. Authors should also deposit the URL/DOI of their published article in any repository, in addition to the Version of Record.

This will guarantee that the definitive version is readily available to those accessing Author's article from such repositories and means that your article is more likely to be cited correctly.

As there are many ways you can share the different versions of your article as it moves through the stages towards publication a summary is provided as follows.

=> Submitted version

Authors can share their submitted version (Author's Original Manuscript (AOM)) via social media, on a scholarly collaboration network, Author's own personal website, or on a preprint server intended for non-commercial use (for example arXiv, bioRxiv, SocArXiv, etc.). Posting on a preprint server is not considered to be duplicate publication. If Author do decide to post his/her AOM anywhere, upon acceptance, Author acknowledges that the article has been accepted for publication by JGMDS as follows:

"This article has been accepted for publication in Journal of Gandhara Medical and Dental Sciences (JGMDS)

=> Accepted version (Author Accepted Manuscript)

Authors can post their accepted version of articles (Accepted Manuscript (AM)) at any point after acceptance (this includes posting to Facebook, Google groups, and LinkedIn, plus linking from Twitter). To encourage citation of their work, we recommend that they insert a link from their posted AM to the published article with the following text, including the DOI:

"This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Journal of Gandhara Medical and Dental Sciences (JGMDS) on [date of publication], [Article DOI]."

=> Published version (Version of Record):

On publication authors can link to the Published version of Articles (Version of Record (VOR)) using the DOI or they can post the article PDF on any non-commercial websites and repositories of their choice. Connecting the different versions of their article.

By the time your article is published, Author may have already shared their AOM and AM in various places. It is a good idea to link these to the VOR after publication, by adding some text such as:

"This is an [title of Accepted Manuscript / Author's Original Manuscript] of an article published in Journal of Gandhara Medical and Dental Sciences (JGMDS) on [date of publication], available at [Article DOI]."