Intellectual Property and Copyright

Authors certify that their submitted manuscript (and any supporting items) are their own intellectual property and the copyright has not been transferred to others. Authors certify the manuscript contains no plagiarism, no fabrication, no falsification, no manipulated citations, and that the manuscript conforms to UJPR authorship policies. Authors certify that for any copyrighted tables, figures, data, text, etc. permission has been obtained from the copyright holders to reproduce.

Whenever any article is published by Universal Journal of Pharmaceutical Research, it does not take ownership of the copyright of the published article. It means, authors retain the copyright to their articles and may republish their articles as part of a book or other materials. UJPR allows the author(s) to keep publishing rights. However, for author(s) to keep the copyright ownership of a published article, the following condition should be met. Cite the original source of the publication when reusing the article except on occasion of a retraction of the article.

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors keep copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- Non Commercial 4.0  International (CC BY-NC 4.0). that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. Author will pay the APC for retaining the copyright and open-access of their publication. Reader does not require paying any fee to read the article published in UJPR. Previously published article will not be published in UJPR. Authors are encouraged to submit the reprint in any repositories and UJPR accepts the submission of a manuscript which is submitted to preprint repository.
  2. Authors can enter separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
  3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (The Effect of Open Access).
  4. Author must stick to plagiarism policy.