Open Access Policy

BULETIN PENELITIAN KESEHATAN

Open Access Policy

Immediate Open Access to Scientific Knowledge

Buletin Penelitian Kesehatan provides immediate open access to its published scientific content to support the widest possible dissemination, visibility, accessibility, and responsible reuse of health research.

Free and Immediate Access

All scholarly articles published in Buletin Penelitian Kesehatan are freely available to readers immediately upon publication without subscription charges or access fees.

1. Open Access Statement

Buletin Penelitian Kesehatan is an open-access scientific journal.

Readers may access, read, download, and share published articles without requiring a paid subscription.

The journal believes that providing open access to research supports the dissemination of scientific knowledge and increases opportunities for research findings to be read, discussed, used, and cited.

2. No Embargo Period

Immediate Open Access

Published articles are made openly accessible immediately upon publication. The journal does not apply an embargo period to its scholarly articles.

3. Open License

Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.

The license permits sharing and adaptation of published material provided that appropriate attribution is given and adaptations are distributed under the same or a compatible license.

Read the CC BY-SA 4.0 License

4. Reader Rights

Readers may:

✓ Read articles online without subscription.

✓ Download published articles.

✓ Share articles with students, researchers, practitioners, and the public.

✓ Deposit and link to published articles where permitted by the license.

✓ Reuse and adapt article content in accordance with the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

5. Author Self-Archiving

Authors are permitted and encouraged to make their work available through appropriate repositories and academic platforms.

Authors may deposit:

Their manuscript in an institutional repository.
The published version of the article.
The article on a personal or institutional academic website.
The article in an appropriate subject repository.

When depositing the published version, authors should acknowledge the original publication in Buletin Penelitian Kesehatan and provide the DOI whenever available.

6. Copyright

Authors retain copyright in their published articles.

Authors grant Buletin Penelitian Kesehatan the right of first publication and relevant non-exclusive publishing and preservation rights.

Copyright terms are governed separately from the open license provided to readers and should be interpreted together with the journal's Copyright & Licensing Policy.

7. Article Processing Charges

Open access means that readers can access published scholarly articles without subscription or paywall restrictions.

Any Article Processing Charge (APC) applicable to authors is governed by the journal's separate Article Processing Charge Policy.

Important:

Payment of an APC does not influence editorial decisions and does not guarantee acceptance or publication.

8. Access to Metadata

Article metadata, including title, author information, abstract, keywords, citation information, and DOI where available, is intended to be publicly accessible to support discovery and indexing.

9. Commitment to Knowledge Dissemination

Buletin Penelitian Kesehatan and Poltekkes Kemenkes Palu support the broad dissemination of reliable health research.

Through open access, the journal aims to make scientific evidence more accessible to researchers, health professionals, educators, students, policymakers, and the wider community.

Open Access at a Glance