Open Access Policy

1. Statement of Open Access
The Ayurveda, Pharmacy and Integrative Medical Research (APIMR) is a fully open-access journal. All research articles published in JPMHAS are available to the public online immediately upon publication. There is no embargo period, and no registration or subscription is required to access the full text of any article.

2. User Rights & Permitted Reuse
This journal follows the BOAI definition of Open Access: users are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.

3. Licensing
All articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. This license allows for:

  • Sharing: Copying and redistributing the material in any medium or format.

  • Adapting: Remixing, transforming, and building upon the material for any purpose, including commercial use.

  • Attribution: Proper credit must be given to the original authors and the source.

4. Author Rights & Archiving
Authors retain unrestricted copyright and all publishing rights. APIMR also supports Green Open Access, allowing authors to self-archive any version of their work (preprint, accepted manuscript, or published PDF) in institutional or thematic repositories of their choice without an embargo.