The Journal of Shelter Medicine and Community Animal Health (JSMCAH) is a society-published, open-access, continuous publication, peer-reviewed journal of the Association of Shelter Veterinarians. JSMCAH publishes research that advances shelter and community animal health, welfare, and access to veterinary care, promoting evidence-based practices to improve outcomes for animals and the people who care for them. Learn more >>
Open Access Policy
Open Access Statement
The Journal of Shelter Medicine and Community Animal Health is an open-access journal. All articles are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited. Authors retain the copyright to their published articles. Open access enables greater reuse and citation, increases visibility and discoverability, fosters engagement, drives immediate impact, encourages interdisciplinary work, and supports broader collaboration.
The Journal of Shelter Medicine and Community Animal Health adopts the Open Access Declaration published by the Budapest Open Access Initiative in February 2002:
“By ‘open access’ to this [research] literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.”
The publisher guarantees not to charge any reader or library a subscription fee or a fee for access to published electronic articles.
Copyright Statement
Authors contributing to the Journal of Shelter Medicine and Community Animal Health agree to publish their articles under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, including commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited.
Authors retain copyright of their work, with first publication rights granted to The Association of Shelter Veterinarians.
You may:
- Share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format)
- Adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material) for any purpose, including commercial use.
When using, adapting, or sharing materials under this license, you must:
- Provide correct attribution (give appropriate credit, include a link to the license, and indicate if changes are made). This must be done in a way that does not suggest endorsement by the original authors or publishers.
- Avoid creating additional restrictions (you may not impose legal terms or technological barriers that prevent others from exercising the rights granted by the license).
