Copyright and Licensing

Copyright

Authors publishing in Media Husada Journal of Nursing Sciences (MHJNS) retain the copyright of their published articles.

By submitting and publishing an article in MHJNS, authors grant the journal the right to publish, distribute, archive, and make the article publicly available as part of its open access publishing activities. This arrangement does not transfer copyright ownership from the authors to the journal.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that their submitted work is original, that all sources are appropriately acknowledged, and that any necessary permissions for the use of third-party copyrighted materials have been obtained.

Licensing

Proposed license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

Subject to the journal's formal adoption of this license, articles published in MHJNS will be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

Under this license, users may share, copy, redistribute, adapt, and build upon the published material for any purpose, including commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and source, a link to the license is provided, and any changes made are indicated.

The full terms of the license are available at:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Implementation note: The CC BY 4.0 license statement above should be published as an active journal policy only after MHJNS has formally confirmed and implemented the license. Until then, the journal's current licensing arrangements should be verified before this statement is presented as applicable to published articles.

Author Rights and Responsibilities

Authors retain copyright ownership of their work, subject to the terms of the applicable publication and licensing arrangements.

Authors may share and disseminate their published work in accordance with the applicable license and must provide appropriate attribution to the original publication in MHJNS.

Authors must ensure that third-party materials included in their articles are used lawfully and that any applicable permissions or separate licensing conditions are respected.

MHJNS is committed to providing transparent information about copyright ownership and licensing to support responsible scholarly communication, open access, and the lawful dissemination of nursing research.