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Editorial Policies

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Philosophy of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research

For more information, please see Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research Aims and Scope page.

Who Can Submit?

Anyone may submit an original article to be considered for publication in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research provided he or she owns the copyright to the work being submitted or is authorized by the copyright owner or owners to submit the article. Authors are the initial owners of the copyrights to their works (an exception in the non-academic world to this might exist if the authors have, as a condition of employment, agreed to transfer copyright to their employer).

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General Submission Rules

Submitted articles cannot have been previously published, nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic). Please note: "publication" in a working-paper series does not constitute prior publication. In addition, by submitting material to Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research, the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that he or she will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research. If you have concerns about the submission terms for Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research, please contact the editors.

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Formatting Requirements

Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research has no general rules about the formatting of articles upon initial submission. There are, however, rules governing the formatting of the final submission. See Final Manuscript Preparation Guidelines for details. Although bepress can provide limited technical support, it is ultimately the responsibility of the author to produce an electronic version of the article as a high-quality PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) file, or a Microsoft Word, WordPerfect or RTF file that can be converted to a PDF file.

It is understood that the current state of technology of Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) is such that there are no, and can be no, guarantees that documents in PDF will work perfectly with all possible hardware and software configurations that readers may have.

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Copyright Notice

The copyrights of all materials published in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research (PSR) will be held by the respective authors. Authors retain copyrights and grant Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research (PSR) rights to publish the work licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) that allows others to remix, adapt, build upon the work non-commercially with an acknowledgment of the work’s authorship and initial publication in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research (PSR).

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Open Access Policy

Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research (PSR) is an open access journal which provides immediate, worldwide, barrier-free access to the full text of all published articles without charge readers or their institutions for access, on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Readers have right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of all articles in the Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research (PSR) under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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General Terms and Conditions of Use

Users of the UI Scholars Hub website and/or software agree not to misuse the UI Scholars Hub service or software in any way.

The failure of UI Scholars Hub to exercise or enforce any right or provision in the policies or the Submission Agreement does not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any term of the Submission Agreement or these policies is found to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Submission Agreement and these policies remain in full force and effect. These policies and the Submission Agreement constitute the entire agreement between UI Scholars Hub and the Author(s) regarding submission of the Article.

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