Open Access and Copyright Policy

Journal of Public Health and Pharmacy

The Journal of Public Health and Pharmacy (JPHP) provides immediate and permanent Open Access to all published articles. Readers may access published content without subscription fees, registration requirements, embargo periods, or other access charges.

JPHP supports the broad dissemination and responsible reuse of scholarly knowledge in public health, population health, health policy, health services, and the role of pharmacy in public health while protecting author attribution, publication integrity, and the traceability of the scholarly record.

1. Open Access

All articles published by JPHP are freely available immediately after publication. No embargo period applies to reader access or author self-archiving of the final published version.

Readers may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to, translate, adapt, and otherwise use published articles in accordance with the applicable Creative Commons license and any separately identified third-party rights.

2. Copyright Ownership

Authors retain copyright ownership of their published work. Submission, acceptance, and publication do not transfer copyright ownership to JPHP, its Editorial Board, or Universitas Muhammadiyah Palu.

By publishing with JPHP, authors grant the journal a nonexclusive right of first publication and permission to publish, reproduce, distribute, preserve, index, archive, display, and identify the article as originally published by JPHP.

3. Creative Commons License

Unless otherwise indicated on the article page or in a separate credit line, articles published by JPHP are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

The license permits users to:

• Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
• Download, print, display, and share the published article
• Adapt, remix, translate, transform, and build upon the material
• Use the material for academic, educational, professional, policy, public-health, or commercial purposes

Users must:

• Provide appropriate credit to the authors and JPHP
• Cite the original publication and provide the DOI or stable article link where available
• Provide a link to the CC BY-SA 4.0 license
• Indicate whether changes, adaptations, translations, or modifications were made
• Distribute adapted material under CC BY-SA 4.0 or another officially compatible ShareAlike license
• Not imply endorsement by the authors, journal, editors, publisher, or Universitas Muhammadiyah Palu
• Not impose legal or technological restrictions that prevent others from exercising the rights granted by the license

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4. Required Attribution

Reuse should include sufficient bibliographic information to identify and trace the original publication. Where applicable, attribution should include:

• Author name or names
• Complete article title
• Journal title: Journal of Public Health and Pharmacy
• Publication year, volume, issue, and page range or article identifier
• Digital Object Identifier or stable article link
• Reference and link to the CC BY-SA 4.0 license
• A clear statement describing any modification, translation, adaptation, or abridgment

5. Author Self-Archiving

Authors may deposit, share, and distribute the final published version of their articles immediately after publication. No embargo period applies.

Permitted locations include:

• Institutional repositories
• Subject or disciplinary repositories
• National or international scholarly repositories
• Personal or institutional websites
• Academic profiles and scholarly networks
• Research project repositories
• Theses, dissertations, reports, teaching materials, or collected academic works

Deposited copies must acknowledge the original publication in JPHP and include the complete citation, DOI or official article link, and applicable CC BY-SA 4.0 license notice. Authors should deposit the final published version rather than an uncorrected or incomplete version when possible.

6. Third-Party Material

Images, figures, tables, instruments, questionnaires, photographs, maps, illustrations, datasets, scales, software, quotations, or other third-party material may be subject to separate copyright or licensing conditions.

Authors are responsible for identifying third-party material, obtaining any required permission, and providing accurate attribution, copyright, and license information.

Material excluded from the article's Creative Commons license must be identified clearly in the relevant caption, credit line, footnote, supplementary notice, or article-level licensing statement. Users may need additional permission from the relevant rights holder before reusing such material.

7. Author Responsibilities

Authors are responsible for:

• Ensuring that submitted material does not unlawfully infringe copyright, privacy, confidentiality, intellectual-property, contractual, or other rights
• Obtaining permission for restricted third-party content where required
• Providing accurate source, attribution, copyright, and license information
• Disclosing material previously published, deposited, presented, adapted, translated, or licensed elsewhere
• Ensuring that all co-authors approve publication under CC BY-SA 4.0
• Ensuring that the licensing statement accurately reflects the rights they are authorized to grant
• Ensuring that personal, confidential, sensitive, or controlled-access information is disclosed only when legally and ethically permitted

8. Article Processing Charge

The Open Access license and reader access rights are separate from the Article Processing Charge. Payment of the APC does not transfer copyright from the authors to JPHP and does not influence editorial screening, reviewer selection, peer-review outcomes, acceptance, rejection, publication priority, or publication scheduling.

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9. Digital Preservation

JPHP maintains measures intended to support continued access to published articles and metadata, including journal website hosting, routine backups, repository deposit, indexing services, metadata registration, DOI services, and other preservation arrangements described in the journal's Archiving Policy.

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10. Research Data and Supplementary Materials

The CC BY-SA 4.0 license applied to an article does not automatically determine copyright ownership, access conditions, confidentiality obligations, or permitted reuse of underlying research data and supplementary materials.

Research datasets, supplementary files, participant-level information, third-party databases, controlled-access materials, source code, software, laboratory records, or repository content may be subject to separate licenses, participant consent, ethics approval, institutional requirements, contractual restrictions, or applicable data-protection laws. Users should consult the article's Data Availability Statement, repository record, and related notices before reuse.

11. Misuse and License Compliance

Open Access does not permit plagiarism, false attribution, deceptive modification, research misconduct, misrepresentation, unlawful reuse, breach of confidentiality, violation of privacy, or removal of required copyright and license notices.

Reuse or adaptation must not distort the authors' findings, obscure modifications, imply endorsement by the authors or JPHP, or misrepresent the original publication. Users remain responsible for complying with the Creative Commons license, applicable law, and any separately identified third-party rights.