The International Journal of Adolescent and Pediatric Health (IJAPH) is an open-access, online-only scholarly journal. All published articles are made freely and immediately available online upon publication, without subscription fees or mandatory registration barriers for readers.

IJAPH supports the broad dissemination, accessibility, and responsible reuse of scholarly knowledge related to adolescent and pediatric health.

1. Immediate Open Access

All articles published in IJAPH are available through the journal's official website immediately upon publication.

Readers may access, read, download, copy, share, print, search, link to, and otherwise use published articles in accordance with the terms of the applicable open-access license.

No subscription is required to access the full text of published IJAPH articles.

2. Creative Commons License

Articles published in IJAPH are distributed under the:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0)

License URL:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Under this license, users may:

• Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format; and
• Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercial purposes.

Users must:

• give appropriate credit to the original author(s);
• identify the original source of publication;
• provide a link to the CC BY 4.0 license where appropriate; and
• indicate whether changes were made.

Use of the material must not imply endorsement by the original authors, IJAPH, or PT Inovasi Multi Guna.

3. Author Copyright

Authors retain copyright to their published work.

Upon publication, authors grant IJAPH a non-exclusive right of first publication and permission to publish and distribute the article under the CC BY 4.0 license.

Authors may reuse and share their published work in accordance with the terms of the license and the journal's copyright policy.

4. Author Self-Archiving

IJAPH permits authors to deposit and share the published version of their articles through:

• institutional repositories;
• subject repositories;
• personal academic websites;
• institutional websites; and
• other appropriate scholarly platforms.

Authors should include the complete citation and a link to the official IJAPH publication when depositing or sharing their work.

5. Article Processing Charges

IJAPH may apply an Article Processing Charge (APC) to accepted manuscripts in accordance with the journal's published fee policy.

APC information, including the applicable amount and payment procedures, is disclosed separately in the journal's Article Processing Charge policy.

The payment of an APC does not influence peer review, reviewer selection, editorial decisions, acceptance, rejection, or publication priority.

There is no subscription fee for readers to access published articles.

6. Digital Availability and Preservation

Published articles and associated metadata are maintained through the journal's Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform.

PT Inovasi Multi Guna maintains regular backup procedures to support the continued availability and integrity of the journal's digital content.

Information regarding participation in external digital preservation services will be displayed only after such participation has been officially implemented and verified.

7. Open Access and Editorial Independence

The journal's open-access model does not influence editorial decision-making.

Editorial decisions are based on:

• scholarly quality;
• relevance to the journal's scope;
• methodological rigor;
• ethical compliance;
• originality; and
• peer-review outcomes.

Financial or institutional considerations do not determine whether a manuscript is accepted or rejected.

Contact

For questions regarding open access, copyright, or licensing, please contact:

Publisher: PT Inovasi Multi Guna
Publisher Email: hello@img.co.id
Editorial Email: editorialijaph@img.co.id
Phone/WhatsApp: +62 851 2131 1860
Publisher Website: https://img.co.id
Journal Website: https://journal.img.co.id/index.php/ijaph