Copyright and self-archiving policy

All articles in "International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health" beginning with issue 4/2024 are published in Open Access model and licensed under a CC BY 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International). Please read the detailed terms of the license at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Articles up to and including issue 3/2024 were published under the terms of the CC BY-NC 3.0 Poland license (Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial 3.0 Poland).

Upon the publication of the article in an electronic or printed form, the Authors transfer free-of­charge to Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Łódź, Poland (hereinafter referred to as the publisher) the proprietary rights to the work. The publisher acquires them, together with the right to exercise the derivative copyright to the work. It includes the use and disposal of the work or a derivative work, either individually or in combination with other works or materials not meeting the characteristics of the work, in its entirety, and in any part, in any field of exploitation known at the time of the conclusion of the agreement. The Authors declare that they authorize the publisher to perform on their behalf the following moral rights in relation to the work or a derivative work, as well as their parts: the right to the inviolability of the content and form; the right to decide on the first release of the work to an unlimited number of people.

Dear Readers, you are free to:

• share – copy and redistribute the articles in any medium or format,
• adapt – e.g., translate
under the following terms:
• attribution
  
  • you must give appropriate credit – provide the following information: author/authors, title of the article, name of the journal, year, volume, issue, range of pages, DOI number in the form of a link and name of the license together with a link to its description (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/);
  • if any changes have been made in the article, you must provide detailed information regarding the changes – you may provide it in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

Dear Authors, we encourage you to share your work:

• send an e-mail with your article’s DOI (as a link) to your colleagues,
• present your article at a meeting or conference and distribute printed copies of the article,
• make printed copies of your article to be used during lecture or in classroom,
• include your article in a thesis.

We recommend sharing/archiving articles in Version of Record (VoR) – publisher’s version published at https://ijomeh.eu is recommended to be used.
We also permit sharing/archiving in Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) version.

• Version of record (VoR) is the version of the manuscript published in the journal, after editing and language correction, after typesetting, with a set of fonts and graphics corresponding to the journal’s visual identity system.
  Other names: published version or publisher’s PDF.
• Author accepted manuscript (AAM): the final, author-created version of the of the manuscript, which includes any changes made after reviews. The version accepted for publication by the journal.
  Other names: postprint, author accepted manuscript.

The journal does not accept the articles that have been previously published in any form or submitted for publication in any other publishing house or editorial office (it also applies to repositories).

For other uses of the articles or in case of any doubts, please send your questions to: ijomeh@imp.lodz.pl.