Open Access Policy

Journal of Pharmacy and Halal Studies (JPHS) provides immediate, permanent open access to all published content. JPHS supports the principle that free and unrestricted access to peer-reviewed research accelerates scientific discovery, improves healthcare and pharmacy practice, and strengthens global knowledge exchange in pharmacy and halal pharmacy related sciences.

1) Open Access Statement

All articles published in JPHS are made openly available online immediately upon publication, without subscription fees or pay-per-view charges. Readers may access and use the content without financial, legal, or technical barriers, other than those inherent to internet access.

2) Copyright and Publishing Rights

Copyright remains with the author(s). By publishing in JPHS, the author(s) grant the Publisher (Edu Science Indonesia) a non-exclusive license to publish, reproduce, distribute, and communicate the work in all forms and media, and to identify itself as the original publisher of the article.

3) License and Terms of Use

Unless otherwise stated, all articles in JPHS are published under the Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/.

Under CC BY-SA 4.0, users are permitted to:

  • Share: copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format (including for commercial purposes).
  • Adapt: remix, transform, and build upon the material (including for commercial purposes).

Under the following conditions:

  • Attribution (BY): appropriate credit must be given, a link to the license provided, and changes indicated.
  • ShareAlike (SA): adaptations must be distributed under the same license.
  • No additional restrictions: users may not apply legal/technical measures that restrict others from what the license permits.

4) Recommended Attribution

When reusing content from JPHS, users should provide proper scholarly attribution, including (as applicable): author(s), year, article title, journal title, volume(issue), page range, and DOI, and a statement that the work is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

5) Third-Party Material

If an article contains third-party material (e.g., figures, tables, photographs, datasets) that is not covered by the article’s Creative Commons license, this will be indicated in a credit line. Permission for reuse of such material must be obtained from the respective rights holder.

6) Author Self-Archiving and Repository Deposit

JPHS encourages authors to deposit and share the published version of record in institutional repositories, personal websites, and scholarly platforms, provided that the original publication in JPHS is properly cited and the CC BY-SA 4.0 terms are respected.

7) Article Processing Charges (APCs)

JPHS is a fully open-access journal. To support editorial handling and publishing services, JPHS applies an Article Processing Charge (APC) for accepted manuscripts only. The current APC information (including the fee amount and payment timing) is stated in the journal’s APC policy. Editorial decisions are made independently of the author’s ability to pay.