OPEN ACCESS POLICY

Jurnal Ilmiah Kesehatan Masyarakat, abbreviated as SEHATMAS, provides immediate open access to everything that it publishes. Research in public health is most useful when health workers, researchers, students, policy makers, and communities can read it freely and use it widely. This policy follows the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative.

Free to read, free to reuse. Every article is free to read on publication, without registration and without an embargo. Authors keep their copyright, and articles are published under the CC BY 4.0 license, so others may share and reuse them if they give credit.

Policy at a Glance

Item	Policy of SEHATMAS
Access model	Immediate open access to the full text of every article.
Fees for readers and institutions	None.
Registration to read	Not required.
Embargo	None.
Copyright	Retained by the authors.
License	CC BY 4.0.
Commercial reuse	Permitted, with attribution.
Adaptation and translation	Permitted, with attribution.
Self archiving by authors	Permitted, with acknowledgement of the first publication in SEHATMAS.
Fees for authors	No submission fee. The publication charge is listed on the Author Fees page.

1. Immediate and Free Access

No.	Principle
1	No subscription is needed to read the articles.
2	No registration or login is needed to read the full text.
3	There is no paywall and there is no access fee.
4	There is no embargo. The full text is public as soon as it is published.

Readers may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and link to the full text without asking for permission, as long as they follow the license. All published issues are available in the Archives.

2. Open License

Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0), except for third party material that is clearly marked as excluded. The license permits sharing, adaptation (including remixing and translation), and commercial reuse. Anyone who reuses an article must do the following.

No.	Condition of reuse
1	Give appropriate credit to the authors and acknowledge the source.
2	Provide a link to the license.
3	Indicate if changes were made.
4	Do not suggest that the authors, the journal, or the publisher endorse the reuse.

The full terms and a sample credit line are on the Licensing page.

3. Copyright and Author Rights

Topic	Policy
Copyright	Authors keep the copyright of their work.
Right of first publication	Authors grant the journal the right of first publication. At the same time, the work is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Other arrangements	Authors may make separate nonexclusive arrangements for the distribution of the published version, for example in a book or an institutional repository, as long as the first publication in SEHATMAS is acknowledged.

4. Rights of Readers and Reuse

The CC BY 4.0 license allows the following uses. Each of them still requires attribution, a link to the license, and a statement of changes.

Use	Examples
Read and download	Reading online, or saving an article to a device.
Copy, print, and share	Giving copies to students, trainees, or health workers.
Link	Linking from course pages, reading lists, guidelines, or websites.
Translate and adapt	Translating an article, for example for community health education. The translation should state that it is a translation and that the original is the authoritative version.
Teaching and research	Using articles in lectures, in the training of health workers, in literature reviews, and in theses.
Crawl and index	Indexing by search engines, library systems, and citation databases.
Text and data mining	Analyzing the text of many articles with software.
Commercial and noncommercial reuse	Including an article in a paid training course or in a free list of resources.

5. Open Access and Fees for Authors

Topic	Policy
Costs of the journal	Open access means that readers do not pay. It does not mean that publishing has no costs.
Submission	There is no submission fee.
Publication charges	The publication charge and other charges for authors are listed on the Author Fees page, which is the authoritative source for the amounts.
Fees and decisions	Fees do not affect the decision to accept or to reject a manuscript. Decisions are based on quality and relevance. See the Peer Review Process and Publication Ethics.

6. Self Archiving and Repositories

No embargo applies. Authors may deposit the published version of their article, under CC BY 4.0, in any of the following places.

No.	Place
1	Institutional and university repositories.
2	Subject and disciplinary repositories.
3	Personal and academic websites.
4	Scholarly profiles and research networks.
5	Other legitimate open repositories.

Topic	What authors should do
When depositing	Acknowledge SEHATMAS as the original publisher, give the DOI if one has been assigned, and link to the official version.
Before and during submission	Authors may also post their work online before and during the submission process, as explained in the Copyright Notice. Please tell the editors about such a posting when you submit the manuscript.
Repository copy and journal archive	A copy in a repository does not replace the archive of the journal. See the Archiving Policy and Electronic Filing.

7. Discovery, Indexing, and Machine Access

Subject to the license, articles and their metadata may be searched, linked, crawled, harvested, indexed, analyzed, and processed by academic search engines, library systems, repositories, citation databases, and tools for text and data mining. The indexing services that cover the journal are listed on the Indexing page.

8. Third Party Material

Figures, photographs, maps, tables, datasets, questionnaires, scales, and quotations in an article may have separate terms. Material that is excluded from the open license is identified in the credit line. Reuse of such material, when no legal exception or open license applies, needs the permission of the rights holder. Authors who include third party material in a manuscript must obtain the necessary permission, as explained in Manuscript Preparation.

9. Budapest Open Access Initiative

SEHATMAS supports the principle of the Budapest Open Access Initiative that scholarly literature should be freely available online, so that it can be read, downloaded, copied, distributed, printed, searched, and used for other lawful purposes without financial, legal, or technical barriers, other than those that are inseparable from access to the internet itself.

Our commitment. SEHATMAS will keep its articles freely available, and it will state clearly the rights of authors and readers. Articles use the CC BY 4.0 license, unless third party material is marked otherwise.

Related Pages and Enquiries

Topic	Page
License terms and sample credit line	Licensing
Copyright and author rights	Copyright Notice
Charges for authors	Author Fees
Sharing research data	Data Sharing Policy
Long term preservation	Archiving Policy and Electronic Filing