Repository and Self-Archiving Policy

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Repository and Self-Archiving Policy

 

What authors may deposit, where, and when.

Because Radiology Research Journal (RRJ) publishes under CC BY 4.0 and authors retain copyright, self-archiving is unrestricted. There is no embargo on any version, and no permission needs to be sought from the journal. This page states the position explicitly so that authors can satisfy funder and institutional mandates without ambiguity.

Deposit Rights by Version
Permitted · No Embargo
Submitted Version (Preprint)
The manuscript as submitted, before peer review. May be posted at any time on any preprint server or repository. The preprint DOI must be declared to the journal at submission, and the authors are asked to add a link to the published version once it appears.
Permitted · No Embargo
Accepted Version (Postprint)
The peer-reviewed manuscript after acceptance but before copyediting and typesetting. May be deposited immediately on acceptance in any repository, with an acknowledgement that the article has been accepted for publication in this journal.
Permitted · No Embargo
Version of Record (Published PDF)
The final typeset article. May be deposited and redistributed immediately, in the publisher's own layout, provided the full citation, DOI, and CC BY licence statement are retained. This is the version the journal recommends depositing.
Where Authors May Deposit
Institutional repositories operated by the authors' universities or hospitals.
Subject repositories such as medRxiv, arXiv, and Europe PMC.
Funder repositories where a grant condition requires deposit.
National repositories, including Garuda and RAMA in Indonesia.
Personal and departmental websites, and academic social networks such as ResearchGate.
Teaching platforms and course packs, including reproduction for classroom use.

Deposit in an aggregator or commercial platform is equally permitted, but authors should note that such platforms are not preservation services. Deposit in a recognised institutional or subject repository is the reliable route to long-term availability and to compliance with funder mandates.

Required Acknowledgement on Deposit
Model statement to accompany a deposited copy
"This article was published in Radiology Research Journal, [Volume]([Issue]), [pages], [year]. DOI: [DOI]. It is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited."
Depositing Data and Code

The journal encourages deposit of underlying datasets, analysis code, and trained models in a repository that issues a persistent identifier, with the identifier cited in the article's Data Availability Statement.

Imaging Data Requires Particular Care
Depositing clinical images in a public repository is permitted only where full de-identification has been carried out — DICOM metadata stripped, burned-in annotations removed, and three-dimensional head datasets defaced — and where the ethics approval or participant consent covers open sharing. Where it does not, the dataset should be placed in a controlled-access repository, or the Data Availability Statement should describe how a researcher may request access. See the Publication Ethics policy for the full de-identification requirements.
Summary for Funder Compliance

Radiology Research Journal is a fully open access journal charging no fees, publishing under CC BY 4.0 with copyright retained by the authors, and permitting immediate deposit of the version of record in any repository with no embargo. This satisfies the open access requirements of Plan S and of most national and institutional mandates. Authors needing a formal statement for a funder may request one from [EDITORIAL EMAIL].

Radiology Research Journal (RRJ) · Repository Policy · Version 1.0, [MONTH YEAR]