International Community Health Journal (ICHJ) is an open-access journal. The authors bear the publication cost, so the articles are available and reusable worldwide, free of charge.

ICHJ fully complies with the open-access definition defined by the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) and Directory Open Access Journal (DOAJ), “By “open access” to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.”

For Authors

• Authors grant ICHJ the right as a publisher and to the first publication of published materials.
• Authors retain unrestricted copyrights and publishing rights to their works, so they may not ask for permission from ICHJ to reuse their works according to the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NC 4.0.

For Commercial / For-profit Organizations

ICHJ strictly prohibits the use of its published articles for commercial purposes. The following are considered commercial purposes:

• Redistributing, selling, or licensing the published articles;
• Posting the published articles on a site or service incorporating advertising with such content;
• Linking the published articles or their contents in email messages redistributed for promotional or marketing purposes;
• Using the published articles or their contents for a monetary reward through sale, resale, license, loan, transfer, or commercial exploitation, such as marketing products.
• Using the published articles or their contents (other than standard quotations with appropriate citation) by for-profit organizations for promotional purposes;
• Incorporating the published articles or their contents in other works or services (other than standard quotations with an appropriate citation) available for sale or licensing for a fee;

For Educational Institutions

Educational institutions can make multiple copies of the published articles or their contents for teaching purposes if they are not sold or further commercially reproduced.