Open access policies

The Spanish Journal of Clinical Cases in Internal Medicine (RECCMI), as well as its sponsor the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine (SEMI), and all their content are open access. This you do not need to sign up or request prior permission to access full-text articles immediately upon publication. Our readers can read, download, copy, print, or link to full-text articles without seeking prior permission from the author.

We adhere to the Budapest Declaration which states "free availability on the public Internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to full texts of these articles, browse them for indexing, use them as data for 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 journal is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) which allows the material to be shared, copied, and redistributed in any medium or format, under the following terms:

- Attribution: You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests that the licensor endorses you or your use.

- Non Commercial: You may not use the material for commercial purposes.

- No Derivatives: If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.

- No Additional Restrictions: You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.