Open Access, Copyright & Permissions Policy

 

Open Access Policy

Al-Shifa Journal of Ophthalmology is an open access journal, which means that all articles are freely available online immediately upon publication, without subscription or access fees. We are committed to the dissemination of high-quality scientific knowledge and believe that open access fosters global knowledge exchange and the advancement of ophthalmic science and practice.

Readers are free to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author, in accordance with the terms of the applicable Creative Commons license.

Copyright Policy

Upon acceptance of an article, authors retain the copyright of their work. All articles published in Al-Shifa Journal of Ophthalmology are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. This allows others to remix, adapt, and build upon the work for non-commercial purposes, provided the original work is properly cited.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that their submission does not infringe upon any existing copyright or intellectual property rights.

Permissions

No special permission is required to reuse all or part of an article published in Al-Shifa Journal of Ophthalmology, including figures and tables, as long as the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. For commercial use or adaptation, written permission must be obtained from the editorial office.