Our commitment to unrestricted access to scholarly research
The American Journal of Healthcare Strategy (AJHCS) is a fully open access journal. All articles are freely available immediately upon publication, with no embargo period, subscription requirement, or registration wall.
AJHCS adheres to the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition of open access: users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.
All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
CC-BY 4.0: You are free to share and adapt the material for any purpose, including commercially, as long as you provide appropriate credit, a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.
AJHCS charges no article processing charges (APCs), submission fees, page charges, color charges, or any other fees to authors. Publishing in AJHCS is completely free of charge.
Authors may deposit any version of their work in institutional or subject repositories at any time, including:
There is no embargo period for self-archiving.
When depositing, authors must include proper attribution and a link to the published version on the AJHCS website. This policy aligns with the terms of the CC-BY 4.0 license under which all AJHCS articles are published.
