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• What if I want to re–use material from another source in my article?
• What are the ‘STM Permissions Guidelines’ and how can I use them?
• What is ‘fair dealing’, and what does it cover?
• What is ‘fair use’, and what does it cover?

What is ‘research data’?
Why is open research data important?
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What license terms can I use for my research data?

Therapeutic Advances Series - world-leading open access journals in clinical medicine

The following lists the pure gold open access journals published by Sage. All articles published in the journals provide worldwide, barrier-free access to the full-text of articles online, immediately on publication under a creative commons license. All articles are rigorously peer-reviewed retaining the quality hallmarks of the academic publishing process that authors would experience in publishing in any traditional Sage journal.