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License and Copyright Policy

The Indonesian Journal of Health Informatics (IJHI) is dedicated to the open dissemination of research. Our license and copyright policies are designed to ensure that health information management research is widely accessible, reusable, and distributed for the benefit of the scientific community and the public, while fiercely protecting the intellectual property of our authors.

1. Copyright Ownership and Licensing

Authors Retain Copyright: Upon submission, authors confirm that their manuscript is an original work. IJHI does not force authors to sign over their copyright. Copyright of the published article remains fully with the author(s), while IJHI is granted the right of first publication.

CC BY 4.0 License: All articles published in IJHI are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This open-access license permits anyone to:

  • Share: Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
  • Adapt: Remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
  • Requirement: Users must give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the journal, provide a link to the license, and indicate if any changes were made.

2. Author and User Rights

Author Rights: Authors publishing in IJHI retain the unrestricted right to:

  • Use their published work for teaching, classroom materials, and academic presentations.
  • Deposit the published publisher's version (PDF) of the article in institutional or subject-based repositories (Self-Archiving).
  • Reuse portions of the article in future works (such as books or thesis compilations), provided the original IJHI publication is properly cited.

User Rights: Readers and users are free to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, provided that proper attribution is maintained in compliance with the CC BY 4.0 license.

3. Third-Party Material

If a manuscript contains material (e.g., specific figures, extensive tables, proprietary images, or datasets) that is copyrighted by a third party, it is the sole responsibility of the authors to obtain explicit written permission from the copyright holder prior to publication. Such material must be clearly identified within the manuscript with appropriate credit lines and copyright notices.

4. Copyright Infringement and Misuse

IJHI takes the protection of intellectual property seriously. If any copyright violation, unauthorized commercial reproduction without attribution, or misuse of licensed content is identified, the journal reserves the right to take appropriate action. This may include issuing formal corrections, retractions, or removing the infringing content in strict accordance with Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines.