Data Archiving & PermissionsJournal of Clinical and Practical Nursing
Understanding your rights for self-archiving and data sharing ensures maximum visibility for your nursing research. JCPN supports green open access and comprehensive data sharing to advance evidence-based practice.
Self-Archiving Policy
The Journal of Clinical and Practical Nursing actively encourages authors to archive and share their published work through multiple channels to maximize research visibility and impact. Our green open access policy permits authors to deposit both preprints and accepted manuscripts in institutional repositories, subject-specific archives, and personal websites immediately upon publication without embargo periods.
Authors may archive the submitted version (preprint) at any time on preprint servers such as medRxiv, institutional repositories, and personal websites. The accepted manuscript version may be archived immediately upon acceptance, and the final published version with JCPN formatting may be shared through any platform with proper citation and link to the official published version. This permissive archiving policy reflects our commitment to maximizing the reach and impact of nursing research.
When archiving your work, please include the complete citation with DOI to ensure proper attribution and to help readers locate the official version of record. This practice supports accurate citation tracking and helps build your scholarly profile across platforms.
Green open access through self-archiving is an important complement to our gold open access publication model. By depositing copies in multiple locations, you create redundancy that ensures your research remains accessible even if individual platforms experience technical issues or policy changes. This distributed approach to research dissemination aligns with best practices in digital preservation.
Funder Archiving Requirements
Many research funding agencies require grantees to deposit published articles in specific repositories or make them publicly available within designated timeframes. JCPN's immediate open access and permissive archiving policies ensure compliance with major funder mandates including those from NIH, Wellcome Trust, UKRI, and European funding organizations. Authors can immediately deposit published articles without waiting for embargo periods.
If your funder requires deposit in a specific repository such as PubMed Central, Europe PMC, or an institutional archive, our publication policies support this requirement. Contact our editorial office if you need documentation confirming our archiving permissions for grant reporting purposes.
Institutional Repositories
Deposit published articles in your university or hospital system repository immediately upon publication to enhance discoverability through library systems and academic search engines.
Academic Networks
Share on ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and ORCID to connect with colleagues, track citations, and expand your professional network within the nursing research community.
Preprint Servers
Post preprints on medRxiv or other relevant servers to establish priority and gather early feedback before formal peer review begins.
Personal Websites
Include published articles on your professional portfolio, academic CV, and personal research websites with proper attribution.
Research Data Sharing
Data Availability
Share underlying datasets through public repositories with accession numbers cited in your article.
Supplementary Files
Include extended data tables, instruments, and protocols as supplementary materials with your submission.
Upon Request
When full data sharing is not possible, describe conditions under which data may be obtained from authors.
Data Sharing Best Practices
JCPN encourages authors to share research data underlying their findings whenever ethically and legally appropriate. Sharing data supports research reproducibility, enables secondary analyses that extend your work's impact, and demonstrates transparency that builds trust with readers.Appropriate repositories for nursing research data include institutional data repositories, discipline-specific archives, and general-purpose platforms such as Figshare, Zenodo, and Dryad.
When sharing participant data, ensure compliance with informed consent conditions, ethics committee approvals, and data protection regulations applicable to your study location. Anonymization or de-identification may be required before public sharing. If data cannot be shared due to privacy constraints, ethical restrictions, or proprietary limitations, explain these constraints in your data availability statement and describe how interested researchers might request access under appropriate data use agreements.
Survey instruments, interview guides, assessment tools, and other research materials developed for your study should be shared as supplementary files or deposited in appropriate repositories to enable replication and adaptation by other nursing researchers. Making research materials available accelerates scientific progress and enhances the value of your original contribution by enabling follow-up studies.
Maximize Your Research Impact
Take advantage of our permissive archiving and data sharing policies to ensure your nursing research reaches the widest possible audience.
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