Open Access Statement
Biomedica - an Official Journal of University of Health Sciences Lahore Pakistan is an open access journal that follows the criteria recommended by Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). With this open access policy, the copyright holder of a scholarly work grants usage rights to others using an open license (Creative Commons or equivalent) allowing for immediate free access to the work and permitting any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose.
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The open access publication is supported by the authors', institutes or research funding agencies by payment of a comparatively reasonable Article Processing Charge (APC) for accepted articles.