Open access policy

Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases is an open access journal. Articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium except commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial purposes, the process of permission request to the Editorial Office of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases is mandatory. This is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative definition of open access.
It also follows the open access policy of PubMed Central at United States National Library of Medicine (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/).
All the content of the journal is available immediately upon publication without embargo period.

Archiving policy

Full text of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases has been archived in PubMed Central (PMC)/Europe PMC/PMC Canada (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/1922) from the Volume 72, Number 3, 2012.

Deposit policy (Self-archiving policy) according to Sherpa/Romeo

(http://www.sherpa.ac.uk)
Author cannot archive pre-print (i.e. pre-refereeing). Author can archive post-print (i.e. final draft post-refereeing). Author can archive publisher's version/PDF.

Detailed description of use of articles of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases

• □  Reader Benefit: Publisher applies the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial license to works it publishes & allows free immediate access to, and unrestricted reuse of, original works of all types for non-commercial purpose.
• □  Reuse Benefit: Publisher applies the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial license to works it publishes & allows free immediate access to, and unrestricted reuse of, original works of all types for non-commercial purpose.
• □  Copyrights: Publisher applies the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial license to works it publishes. Under this license, although publisher retains ownership of the copyright for content, it allows anyone to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute and/or copy the content for non-commercial purpose.
• □  Author Posting Benefit: Publisher applies the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial license to works it publishes. Under this license, although publisher retains ownership of the copyright for content, it allows anyone including author to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute and/or copy the content for non-commercial purpose.
• □  Automatic Posting: Publisher immediately deposits the accepted articles in PubMed Central (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/1922) and the journal homepage (https://e-trd.org) upon publication.
• □  Machine Readability: The journal articles can be accessed programmatically through PubMed Central, or Europe PMC’s RESTful Web Service (https://europepmc.org/RestfulWebService). For inquiries, please contact katrdsubmit@lungkorea.org.