Copyright & Sharing

Health Inform authors own the copyright to their accepted manuscript and are free to disseminate it as they wish, including self-archiving manuscripts into institutional repositories. We encourage authors to acknowledge that the manuscript has been published in Health Inform.

Health Libraries Inc. (HLI) owns the copyright to the final published copies of articles, and retains exclusive distribution rights for any material accepted in the journal.

HLI may choose to make selected articles submitted to Health Inform open access. See our list of Open Access articles.

Open access content will be subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence, which permits others to share the work, provided it is properly cited, it is not changed, and the use is non-commercial. See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

HLI allows author/s to republish small sections of their article in another publication (print or electronic) of which they are the author, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original Health Inform article. Permission is required for any other use of Health Inform edited and published content.