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Terms and conditions for online access to the full text of Vascular Biology

Benefits

• Vascular Biology is fully Open Access, and as such, all readers may access the full text of the electronic version of the journal content online.
• Readers may download PowerPoint slide versions of the figures for the purpose of presenting them during not-for-profit educational activities. They may not alter the content of the slides in any way or remove the copyright notice.

Conditions

• There must be no systematic copying of the whole or of a substantial fraction of any journal issue (see also Proprietary Rights Notice below).
• There must be no resale of any full-text article.

Open Access content

Vascular Biology articles are freely available to all without any access restrictions, either on this site or elsewhere. Readers may freely save, share and adapt the content, subject to the licence type of the individual article. Please check the licence type before adapting any article.

Table 1: Terms of the user licences offered by Vascular Biology

*Authors publishing under the CC BY-NC-ND licence grant the society owner(s) and/or the publisher commercial rights.

Proprietary Rights Notice for Vascular Biology

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