Copyright & Licensing

Terms of Copyright

  • By publishing with the International Community Health Journal, authors agree to the following stipulations: They retain complete copyright and publishing rights, granted under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NC 4.0 license. This allows others to remix, alter, and expand the authors' work for non-commercial use. Although any derivative works must acknowledge the original authors and be non-commercial, there is no obligation for these new works to adhere to the same licensing terms.
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Terms of Licensing

The International Community Health Journal (ICHJ) employs the Creative Commons license, particularly the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. This license enables others to remix, modify, and expand the work for non-commercial purposes, as long as the original work is appropriately cited. It is essential to recognize that new creations may not be licensed under the same terms. Information regarding Creative Commons licensing is clearly displayed in all full-text article formats, including HTML and PDF.