Copyright & Licensing

Liver Research – Open Journal (LROJ) is a fully open-access journal. Authors retain copyright of their published work, and all articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), unless otherwise explicitly stated for a specific article.

What This Means for Authors

Authors retain full copyright ownership of their published article. By submitting to LROJ, authors grant the journal a license to publish the work and grant all readers the right to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work — including for commercial purposes — provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and the original publication is properly cited.

What This Means for Readers

Articles published in LROJ may be freely read, downloaded, copied, distributed, and reused by anyone, without requiring permission from the author or publisher, subject only to the requirement of proper attribution under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license.

Third-Party Content

Where a manuscript includes material from a third-party source (such as a figure, table, or extended quotation) that is not covered by the author's own copyright, it is the author's responsibility to obtain any necessary permissions prior to submission and to clearly indicate the source and licensing status of that material within the manuscript.

License Verification

The full legal terms of the CC BY 4.0 license can be reviewed directly at creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Authors are encouraged to review these terms prior to submission to ensure they are comfortable with the licensing conditions under which their work will be published.