Pharmacoeconomics: Open Access

Aims and Scope

Pharmacoeconomics is a branch of health economics related to the most economical and efficient use of pharmaceuticals. Pharmacoeconomics research identifies measures and compares the costs and outcomes of pharmaceutical products and services. Pharmacoeconomics can play a significant role in the efficient allocation of resources in healthcare systems with constrained budgets.

All works published by HILARIS SRL are under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. This permits anyone to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the work provided the original work and source is appropriately cited. OJR strongly supports the Open Access initiative. All published articles will be assigned DOI provided by Cross Ref. OJR will keep up-to- date with latest advances in the field of Pharmacoeconomics. Abstracts and full texts (HTML, PDF and XML format) of all articles published by OJR are freely accessible to everyone immediately after publication. OJR supports the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing. Definition of Open Access Publication

An Open Access Publication is one that meets the following two conditions:

• The author(s) and copyright holder(s) grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship, as well as the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use.

• A complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission as stated above, in a suitable standard electronic format is deposited immediately upon initial publication in at least one online repository that is supported by an academic institution, scholarly society, government agency, or other well-established organization that seeks to enable Open Access, unrestricted distribution, interoperability, and long-term archiving (for the biomedical sciences, PubMed Central is such a repository).

As a member of Publisher International linking Association, PILA, Pharmacoeconomics : open access (of HILARIS SRL) follows the Creative Commons Attribution License and Scholars Open Access publishing policies.

Note:

Community standards, rather than copyright law, will continue to provide the mechanism for enforcement of proper attribution and responsible use of the published work, as they do now.