The editor provides secure archiving of published material. Nigde Medical Journal sends the published articles to electronic archives on open access basis without any action by the author(s) and makes them available to full access. The author or funder may upload a copy of the author’s accepted article to their archive site. Nigde Medical Journal author's license permits reuse for non-commercial use only with reference to the source of the article (with a full citation). Our policy of obtaining permission for commercial use applies.

Nigde Medical Journal undertakes to keep all its articles open access under the CC-BY-NC Creative Commons license and to store full-text content on archive platforms and Nigde Medical Journal website.

Articles published in Nigde Medical Journal are digitally archived in LOCKSS and CLOCKSS. In addition, the published articles can be distributed by the author in the institutional archive of the university they work for (DSpace, AVESİS etc.), subject archives or any other archive without embargo period. Thus, anyone can access this publication immediately free of charge.

The publisher of Nigde Medical Journal (e-ISSN:) is pleased to announce that its archive policy is in line with its policy of promoting the dissemination of research results.

• Nigde Medical Journal allows authors to use the final published version of an article (publisher pdf) for self-archiving (author’s personal website) and/or archiving in an institutional repository after publication.

• Authors may self-archive their articles in public and/or commercial subject-based archives. There is no embargo period, but the published source should be cited and a link should be set to the journal homepage or DOI of the articles.

• Authors can download the article as a PDF document. Authors can send copies of the article to their colleagues without any embargo.

• Nigde Medical Journal allows all versions of articles (submitted version, accepted version, published version) to be kept in an institutional or other archive preferred by the author without embargo.

• Nigde Medical Journal uses the LOCKSS system to allow permanent archives to be created. Based on the Stanford University Libraries, the LOCKSS Program provides award-winning, low-cost, open-source digital preservation tools to provide libraries and publishers with access to permanent and authoritative digital content. The LOCKSS Program is a library-led digital preservation system built on the principle of “securing large numbers of copies”. The LOCKSS Program develops and supports libraries using open source end-to-end digital preservation software.

* Nigde Medical Journal will be entitled to receive DOI after two issues.

Nigde Medical Journal requires ORCID IDs to be in article metadata. ORCID ID is an alphanumeric code that uniquely identifies authors.

Nigde Medical Journal uses the Research Organisation Registry Identifier (ROR ID). ROR ID is an open, sustainable, usable and unique institution number record for every research institution in the world.

Nigde Medical Journal shares bibliography in accordance with I4OC standards. The I4OC standards require references to be structured, separable, and clear.

All expenses of Nigde Medical Journal are covered by Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University Faculty of Medicine Dean’s Office. The publication of articles and execution of the article processes in the journal are free of charge. No processing fee or submission fee is charged under any name for the articles submitted to the journal or accepted for publication. Nigde Medical Journal does not accept sponsorship and advertisement due to its publication policies.