Smart: Journal of Healthcare (SHealth) is a strong advocate for Open Access and the unhindered global dissemination of scientific research. To support this mission, the journal has adopted a liberal copyright and licensing policy that empowers both authors and the broader academic community.

All articles published in SHealth are distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

1. Copyright Ownership

• Authors Retain Copyright: Authors who publish with SHealth retain all copyright and full publishing rights to their work without restrictions.

• Right of First Publication: By submitting a manuscript, the authors grant SHealth the right of first publication of the work. Simultaneously, the work is licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, which allows others to share and adapt the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

2. The CC BY-SA 4.0 License Terms

Under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license, readers, researchers, and the general public are free to:

• Share: Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.

• Adapt: Remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

Under the following strict conditions:

• Attribution (BY): Users must give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the journal (SHealth), provide a link to the license, and indicate if any changes were made. This may be done in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses the user or their use of the material.

• ShareAlike (SA): If users remix, transform, or build upon the original material, they must distribute their contributions under the same, identical license (CC BY-SA 4.0) as the original work.

• No Additional Restrictions: Users may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

(A formal link to the human-readable summary and the full legal code of the CC BY-SA 4.0 license should be embedded on the journal's website.)

3. Open Access Declaration

SHealth operates under an immediate gold Open Access model. This means that all published content is freely available without charge to the user or their institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author, provided they adhere to the terms of the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

4. Self-Archiving Policy

Because authors retain copyright, they are explicitly permitted and encouraged to:

• Post the pre-print, post-print (accepted manuscript), or the final published PDF version of their article on personal websites, institutional repositories, or non-commercial academic networks (e.g., ResearchGate, Academia.edu).

• Use their published article in their own teaching, theses, or dissertations.

• Republish the article in a subsequent book of their own writing, provided that the original publication in SHealth is properly acknowledged and cited.