Archiving and Repository Policy

Archiving and Repository Policies of Trends in Biomaterials and Artificial Organs

Our publication policies help our authors achieve a high level of openness with their research and support them in meeting the open access (OA) requirements of their research funders and institutions. All OA articles published by Trends in Biomaterials and Artificial Organs are archived in the journal’s website. It also utilizes the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) to ensure long-term preservation of its published content.

Trends in Biomaterials and Artificial Organs allows self as well as repository archiving of accepted papers after the publication. Authors retain the copyright of their scholarly work and can archive publisher’s version / PDF to personal or institutional repositories or libraries anytime without requiring permission from the journal or publisher.

Authors can also make their published article publicly available immediately after publication without requiring any permission to different repositories, libraries or personal websites provided that they also deposit the URL of their published article, in addition to the PDF version by correctly citing the journal name / publisher, along with other citation details.

Contents published by Trends in Biomaterials and Artificial Organs with digital object identifier (DOIs) are submitted to Crossref, for digital archiving for long term digital preservation.