The Canadian Journal of Infection Control (CJIC) provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
All research papers published by CJIC are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication. CJIC aims to consistently abide by its Open Access policy while upholding the highest possible standards of scientific publishing. Therefore, CJIC’s official position to Open Access are detailed below.
Open Access to peer-reviewed research literature means the published work is made freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author as long as they cite the source.
CJIC operates under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence CC-BY. This allows others to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon the work, even commercially, as long as they credit the authors for the original creation. All authors publishing in CJIC accept these as the terms of publication.