Open Access Policy

Description

Jurnal Fisika Unand (JFU) is an open-access scholarly journal published by the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Andalas.

JFU provides immediate public access to all published articles. Readers are not required to pay subscription fees or register an account to access published content.

The journal considers immediate access to scientific knowledge important for supporting research, education, collaboration, innovation, and the responsible application of physics.

JFU’s open-access model is informed by the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). BOAI promotes free online availability of scholarly literature and the removal of price barriers to access. [budapestop...iative.org], [budapestop...iative.org]

Specific rights to copy, distribute, adapt, or otherwise reuse JFU content are governed by the copyright statement and Creative Commons license displayed on each article. Unless otherwise stated, articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, or CC BY-NC 4.0.

The previous JFU policy already provides immediate access without reader registration and applies CC BY-NC 4.0. This revised policy clarifies that availability, copyright, licensing, self-archiving, publication charges, research-data sharing, and digital preservation are related but distinct matters. [jfu.fmipa....nand.ac.id]

Policy

Immediate Public Access

All articles published by JFU are made freely available on the journal website immediately upon publication.

JFU does not impose:

subscription fees;
pay-per-view charges;
reader registration requirements; or
an embargo period on access to the version of record.

Readers may access, read, download, print, search, and link to published articles without requesting prior permission, subject to the applicable copyright, license, privacy, and third-party rights.

The official publication date is the date displayed on the article or issue landing page.

Copyright Ownership

Authors retain copyright in their articles.

JFU does not require authors to transfer copyright ownership to the journal or its publisher.

Authors grant JFU the non-exclusive rights necessary to:

publish the article;
identify JFU as the original publisher;
distribute the article and its metadata;
register and maintain the article DOI;
include the article in indexing, repository, discovery, and preservation services;
promote the article for scholarly purposes; and
administer corrections, expressions of concern, retractions, or other post-publication notices.

Detailed provisions are provided in the JFU Copyright, Licensing and Third-Party Material Policy.

Creative Commons License

Unless otherwise stated on the article, JFU publishes articles under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Under CC BY-NC 4.0, users may:

Share: copy and redistribute the licensed material in any medium or format; and
Adapt: remix, transform, and build upon the licensed material for non-commercial purposes.

These permissions apply provided that users:

give appropriate credit to the author or authors;
identify JFU as the original place of publication;
provide a link to the CC BY-NC 4.0 license;
indicate whether changes were made;
do not imply endorsement by the authors, JFU, or Universitas Andalas; and
do not impose legal or technological restrictions that prevent others from exercising rights granted by the license.

CC BY-NC 4.0 permits sharing and adaptation for non-commercial purposes with appropriate attribution, a license link, and an indication of changes. [creativecommons.org], [creativecommons.org]

Non-Commercial Use

For the purposes of CC BY-NC 4.0, non-commercial use is use that is not primarily intended for commercial advantage or monetary compensation.

Examples of uses that may generally be non-commercial include:

personal scholarly use;
non-commercial teaching and learning;
inclusion in a non-commercial institutional repository;
sharing through non-commercial academic networks;
use in a thesis or dissertation;
non-commercial research and analysis; and
reproduction in educational materials that are not primarily intended for commercial advantage.

Whether a particular use is commercial depends on its purpose and circumstances.

Users should not assume that a use is non-commercial solely because the user is a university, researcher, public institution, or nonprofit organization.

Commercial Reuse

Commercial reuse that is not permitted by CC BY-NC 4.0 requires prior permission from the relevant copyright holder.

Because JFU authors retain copyright, requests for commercial reuse should normally be directed to the author or other identified copyright holder.

JFU may respond to a commercial-use enquiry only where the journal has received express authority to do so.

Permission may also be required from a third-party rights holder when the proposed use involves material excluded from the article’s Creative Commons license.

Attribution

Appropriate attribution should include, where available:

the author names;
article title;
journal title;
publication year;
volume and issue;
page range or article number;
DOI;
a link to the version of record;
the name and link of the applicable license; and
an indication of any changes.

Attribution must not suggest that the authors, JFU, the publisher, or Universitas Andalas endorses the user or the reuse.

Third-Party Material

The Creative Commons license displayed on an article applies only to material for which the authors or another identified rights holder have authority to grant the license.

Figures, tables, photographs, maps, instruments, datasets, questionnaires, software, or other third-party materials may be subject to separate reuse conditions.

Material excluded from the article’s Creative Commons license should carry a credit line identifying:

the rights holder;
the original source;
the applicable license or permission; and
any reuse restrictions.

Users are responsible for obtaining permission where the intended use is not covered by the article’s license, an applicable exception, or another existing permission.

Author Self-Archiving

JFU supports author self-archiving.

Authors may deposit the following versions in institutional, disciplinary, funder, or personal scholarly repositories:

the submitted manuscript;
the accepted manuscript; and
the published version of record.

JFU does not impose an embargo on self-archiving, provided that:

the deposited version is identified accurately;
JFU is acknowledged as the original publisher where applicable;
the complete citation is supplied after publication;
the DOI and a link to the version of record are included;
the applicable copyright and license information are displayed;
changes to the deposited version are identified; and
third-party materials are not redistributed contrary to their separate reuse conditions.

After publication, authors should update permitted preprint, thesis, dissertation, or repository records with the complete JFU citation, DOI, and a link to the version of record.

Preprints and Prior Dissemination

JFU does not automatically consider transparent dissemination through a preprint, thesis, dissertation, institutional repository, conference abstract, presentation, or proceeding to be prior journal publication.

Authors must disclose relevant prior dissemination during submission and explain its relationship to the submitted manuscript.

Prior versions should be cited or linked where appropriate.

The submitted manuscript must contain a sufficiently original contribution and comply with applicable copyright, licensing, attribution, and duplicate-publication requirements.

After publication, authors should link the prior version to the JFU version of record where the relevant platform allows this.

Detailed requirements are provided in the JFU Plagiarism and Text Recycling Policy.

Reader Rights and Responsibilities

Open access allows readers to access JFU content without subscription or registration charges.

Readers remain responsible for:

complying with the applicable Creative Commons license;
providing appropriate attribution;
respecting author moral rights;
respecting privacy, confidentiality, and personal-data rights;
complying with separate conditions for third-party material;
not misrepresenting or deceptively modifying scientific content; and
obtaining permission for uses not authorized by the applicable license.

The Creative Commons license may not provide every permission required for a particular use. Privacy, publicity, moral rights, confidentiality, database rights, contractual restrictions, or third-party rights may also apply. [creativecommons.org], [creativecommons.org]

Article Processing Charges

Open access for readers is separate from Article Processing Charges paid in connection with accepted manuscripts.

JFU does not charge readers to access published articles.

Any submission fee, peer-review fee, APC, waiver, discount, payment, or refund arrangement is governed by the JFU Article Processing Charges, Waivers and Refunds page.

Payment of an APC does not:

guarantee acceptance;
influence reviewer selection;
influence peer review;
influence the editorial decision;
change copyright ownership; or
change the Creative Commons license applied to an article.

APC and waiver administration must be separated from scholarly assessment and editorial decision-making.

Open Research Data

The article’s open-access status does not automatically make all underlying research data, software, code, or materials openly reusable.

Authors are encouraged to deposit supporting data, code, and research materials in an appropriate repository where ethical, legal, privacy, security, licensing, and technical conditions permit.

Every research article must include a Data Availability Statement.

Restrictions on access to sensitive or controlled data must be explained.

Research involving identifiable participant or patient information must comply with ethics approval, informed consent, consent for publication, privacy, confidentiality, and applicable law.

Detailed requirements are provided in the JFU Research Data, Code, Materials and Reproducibility Policy.

Open Science

JFU supports responsible open-science practices that improve transparency, verification, reproducibility, accessibility, and scholarly collaboration.

Depending on the nature of the research, open-science practices may include:

public access to the published article;
repository deposit;
transparent methods;
Data Availability Statements;
sharing of data and code;
persistent identifiers;
software and version information;
disclosure of analytical decisions;
author-contribution statements;
transparent ethical and funding declarations; and
correction of the scholarly record when needed.

Open science does not override ethical, legal, privacy, security, intellectual-property, or contractual restrictions.

Digital Preservation

Open access and digital preservation are related but distinct.

Open access concerns the availability of published content to readers. Digital preservation concerns continued accessibility and integrity over time.

JFU seeks to preserve published content through:

management of the version of record;
DOI and metadata maintenance;
operational backup;
repository and metadata distribution;
OAI-PMH harvesting where supported;
preservation of corrections and retraction notices; and
verified digital-preservation services where active.

Detailed arrangements are provided in the JFU Digital Preservation and Archiving Policy.

Inclusion in a search engine, indexing service, aggregator, or discovery service does not by itself demonstrate long-term preservation.

Corrections and Retractions

Open access applies to formal post-publication notices, including:

corrections;
expressions of concern;
retraction notices; and
removal notices.

These notices must remain freely accessible.

Retracted articles normally remain accessible and are clearly marked as retracted.

Articles are removed only in exceptional circumstances involving a binding legal requirement, serious privacy violation, defamation risk, or immediate and serious safety or security concern.

Post-publication action follows the JFU Corrections, Retractions and Post-Publication Discussion Policy.

Policy and License Changes

The license applied to an article is the license displayed on the version of record and its article landing page.

JFU will not retrospectively change an article’s license without appropriate authority from the copyright holder and a lawful basis for the change.

Any material change to the journal’s open-access model, copyright arrangements, or default license will:

be approved through the journal’s governance process;
be dated;
be published on the journal website;
apply prospectively unless otherwise lawfully agreed; and
be reflected consistently in article files, landing pages, submission terms, and metadata.

Related Policies

This policy should be read together with:

Technical Operational Steps

The Journal Office verifies that the accepted manuscript has a complete copyright and licensing record before publication.
The production editor confirms that the copyright holder is identified correctly.
The production editor confirms that the applicable Creative Commons license is stated consistently on the article landing page, PDF, HTML, and metadata.
The default license URL is set to the official CC BY-NC 4.0 license page.
The published copyright wording should normally read:

Third-party material excluded from the article license is identified through an appropriate credit line.
The production editor confirms that the article DOI, complete citation, publication date, and version-of-record links are functional.
Article metadata are deposited with applicable DOI, indexing, repository, discovery, and preservation services.
Authors receive information about self-archiving and linking permitted earlier versions to the version of record.
Requests concerning reuse are checked against the article license and any separate third-party credit lines.
Commercial-use enquiries are referred to the relevant copyright holder unless JFU has express authority to decide the request.
Licensing errors are corrected in the article landing page, PDF, HTML, and metadata where technically possible.
Post-publication notices remain openly accessible and linked to the affected article.
A proposed change to the journal’s default license or access model is reviewed for its effect on authors, readers, repositories, funders, metadata, and existing publication agreements.
The Open Access Policy, Copyright Notice, submission agreement, Author Guidelines, PDFs, article landing pages, and OJS license settings are reviewed periodically for consistency.
This policy is reviewed at least once every two years and earlier whenever the journal’s access model, license, fees, preservation arrangements, institutional requirements, or applicable law materially change.

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