Open access, license and copyright
The Journal of Health Informatics is an open access journal. All published content is freely available, with no charge for reading or downloading and no registration required.
License
Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0), which allows copying, distribution, adaptation and reuse for any purpose, including commercial, provided the authors and the original source are credited.
CC BY 4.0 applies to articles published from volume 18 (2026). Articles published until 2025 remain under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. The license stated on each article always applies.
License terms are not altered or supplemented by additional conditions.
Copyright
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the non-exclusive right of first publication. After publication, authors may deposit the article in institutional or subject repositories and disseminate it in any medium, citing the original publication in the Journal of Health Informatics and its DOI.
No fees
The journal charges no submission, review, processing or publication fees (APC), nor any other charge to authors. How the journal is funded is described in Funding and editorial independence.
Updated on 20 October 2026.
