Open Access Policy

IJIPHS has pledged to guarantee free gratis, unrestricted access to all its research publications. IJIPHS has adopted a Gold Open Access model to reflect our commitment to disseminating global scientific knowledge and promoting collaboration in the areas of pharmacy, pharmaceutical sciences and health science. Therefore, all articles published in the journal are immediately and freely accessible online to anyone, anywhere in the world regardless of his/her country of origin or institutional or affiliation, for free of cost thereby increasing the reach and impact of the research to the fullest.

Open Access License and Copyright

All articles published in IJIPHS are made freely available for all readers and all functions of archives. But authors are allowed to retain full ownership of their work and to share it with other authors. Under this license authors retain the right to share their publications as well as to adapt them, under the condition that the original author(s) are properly credited. The policy allows the researchers to freely disseminate their research to, and to a wider audience that includes researchers, health care professionals, policy makers as well as the public.

Archiving and Repository Deposits

Publishers of IJIPHS allow marketing authors to deposit their published work in any repository of their choice, whether or not an institutional repository, under later CC-BY terms. This enables authors to again share their work in accordance with their institution’s or funder’s needs and facilitate global visibility and access of research.

Benefits of Open Access

Publishing research with IJIPHS, authors make it accessible to the global community contingent on the fact that it will be freely accessible and thereby increase the potential citation, collaboration, and use of their work will be. Transparency, facilitating cross discipline work and accelerating scientific and healthcare progress are key advantages of open access.

That is in line with our aim to have a journal that would be a leader in being accessible to everyone and promoting innovation in pharmacy and health science by publishing high quality research with no charge for those benefiting from it.