Open Access & Licensing

Open Access Terms

JCEMS is committed to freely disseminating research and scholarly work to the collegiate EMS community and the public. All JCEMS articles and other content are therefore published open access at CollegeEMS.com. Open access ensures that all content is freely available to the public, with no subscription fee required to view it electronically. This allows content to reach the widest audience and has the greatest impact. Authors and readers can access, share, print, and distribute JCEMS content for free, provided the authors and JCEMS are appropriately cited, as per JCEMS Copyright Policy.

Copyright

The Journal of Collegiate Emergency Medical Services publishes its content under an open-access model. Individual authors retain copyright over their own articles. Articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). According to the Creative Commons license terms, the CC BY 4.0 License “enables reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as contribution is given to the creator.” The full license is available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

All other content created and published by the journal, including that of CollegeEMS.com, is copyrighted by the National Collegiate Emergency Medical Services Foundation. All rights reserved. The copyright licensing information can be found underneath individual articles in both the HTML and PDF formats.