Open Access Policy
Jurnal Dharmaputra Hukum Kesehatan (JDHK) is a fully Diamond Open Access journal. All articles are freely available to readers immediately upon publication, without subscription fees, registration requirements, or any other access barriers. There are no Article Processing Charges (APC) for authors, and no submission fees of any kind.
JDHK fully endorses the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI, 2002) and is committed to maximising the dissemination of scholarly work in medical law, bioethics, and health regulation for the benefit of researchers, practitioners, patients, and policymakers worldwide.
Free for readers — no subscription, no paywall, no registration required to read or download articles.
Free for authors — no article processing charge (APC), no submission fee, no publication fee.
Funded by publisher — JDHK is funded and supported by RSUD Wangaya, Kota Denpasar, as a public service contribution.
All articles published in JDHK are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This license permits anyone to share, copy, redistribute, adapt, transform, and build upon the material in any medium or format, for any purpose including commercial use, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original authors and source.
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon it
Commercial use — use for commercial purposes
Authors retain full copyright of their work. By submitting to JDHK, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive licence to publish the article under the CC BY 4.0 terms. The full licence text is available at: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
JDHK does not charge authors any submission fees, article processing charges (APC), page charges, colour charges, or any other publication-related fees — at any stage of the editorial process.
The costs of publishing JDHK are fully borne by RSUD Wangaya, Kota Denpasar, as part of its institutional commitment to advancing medical law scholarship in Indonesia. This Diamond OA model ensures that high-quality publication remains accessible to all authors regardless of their funding or institutional affiliation.
JDHK supports the rights of authors to share and archive their work. Authors are permitted to self-archive versions of their manuscript at any stage, with no embargo period:
The unreviewed manuscript as submitted to JDHK may be posted to personal websites, institutional repositories, or preprint servers (e.g., SSRN, OSF) at any time before, during, or after review.
The peer-reviewed, accepted manuscript (post-print) may be deposited immediately in institutional or subject repositories with acknowledgement of the original publication in JDHK.
The final published PDF (Version of Record) may also be deposited and shared immediately, as it is freely available under CC BY 4.0. No embargo applies.
When self-archiving, authors should include the following attribution: "Originally published in Jurnal Dharmaputra Hukum Kesehatan (JDHK), [Volume], [Issue], [Year]. DOI: [doi]. Available at https://dmedlaw.org"
JDHK imposes no embargo period. All accepted manuscripts are made freely and fully available online upon publication, with no delay. There is no restricted-access period before articles become open access.
JDHK is committed to the long-term preservation and accessibility of published content. The journal employs the following archiving strategies to ensure permanent availability of the scholarly record:
Content preserved via the Public Knowledge Project's LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) network.
All content is hosted on institutional servers managed by RSUD Wangaya with regular automated backups.
Persistent Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) are assigned through Crossref, ensuring permanent citation links.
Articles are indexed by Google Scholar, ensuring discoverability and providing an additional copy of article metadata.
JDHK meets the criteria of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) for legitimate open-access publishing. Our journal is committed to full transparency and opposes predatory publishing practices.
JDHK believes that publicly funded research and scholarship should be freely accessible to the public. By adopting the Diamond Open Access model, we remove financial barriers for both authors and readers, and ensure that Indonesia's medical law scholarship reaches its fullest potential audience — from Bali to the world. Questions about our Open Access policy may be directed to amerthamanuaba@gmail.com.