Archiving Policy

• The Bulletin of Health Services Research (BHSR) is committed to ensuring the long-term preservation and accessibility of its published content. To achieve this, the journal has established the following archiving policy:

  1. Digital Preservation: All articles published in BHSR are archived in a trusted digital repository to ensure their long-term preservation and accessibility.

  2. Self-Archiving: Authors retain the copyright to their articles and are permitted to self-archive their accepted manuscripts as well as published manuscripts on their personal websites, institutional repositories, or other appropriate platforms.

  3. Open Access: BHSR is an open-access journal, meaning that all published articles are freely accessible to the public without subscription or payment. This aligns with the journal's commitment to disseminating research findings to a global audience.

  4. Compliance with Archiving Mandates: The journal complies with open-access mandates of funding organizations. Authors who publish in BHSR are encouraged to deposit a copy of the published manuscript in any open-access repository for public archiving, provided that an acknowledgement is given to the original source of publication.

  5. Long-Term Accessibility: BHSR ensures that all published content remains accessible to the public for future generations, supporting the integrity and transparency of the research community.