OPEN ACCESS POLICY

OPEN ACCESS POLICY

Open Access Policy

The Link Medical Journal of Health and Community Research (LMJHCR) is committed to the principles of immediate, free, and unrestricted access to scholarly research. All articles published in LMJHCR are made available online immediately upon publication, with no embargo period.

LMJHCR follows the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition of open access. Accordingly, users are allowed to:

  • Read
  • Download
  • Copy
  • Distribute
  • Print
  • Search
  • Link to the full text of articles
  • Use the content for any other lawful purpose

without financial, legal, or technical barriers, and without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author, provided proper attribution to the original work is maintained.

Licensing

All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

This license permits:

  • Sharing, copying, or redistributing the material in any medium or format
  • Adapting, remixing, transforming, and building upon the material
  • For any purpose, including commercial use

as long as appropriate credit is given to the original authors and the source.

Access and Charges

  • Readers have complete and free access to all journal content.
  • No registration is required to view articles.
  • Article downloads are free for everyone.
  • The journal does not charge subscription fees.
  • Any article processing charges (APC) and/or fees, if applicable, are described separately in the APC Policy.

Copyright

Authors retain full copyright over their published work.

Authors grant the journal the non-exclusive right to publish and disseminate the article under the CC BY 4.0 license.

Archiving and Availability

LMJHCR guarantees permanent access to all published content through multiple archiving systems, which are detailed in the Archiving Policy.

Compliance with Funders

This open access policy complies with major open access requirements and guidance frameworks, including:

  • BOAI
  • Plan S
  • WHO / NIH open access mandates
  • HEC Pakistan open access guidelines