Open Access Policy

All articles published by Microbiology Indonesia are made immediately available worldwide under an open-access license. This means that everyone has free and unlimited access to the fulltext of all articles published in Microbiology Indonesia, and everyone is free to reuse the published material if proper accreditation/citation of the original publication under the license terms of a https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited.

In accordance with major definitions of open access in the scientific literature (namely the Budapest, Berlin, and Bethesda declarations), Microbiology Indonesia defines open access by the following conditions:

  • peer-reviewed literature is freely available without a subscription,
  • literature is immediately released in open access format (no embargo period), and
  • published material can be re-used without obtaining permission as long as a correct citation to the original publication is given.

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. This journal is open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to users or / institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to full-text articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or author. This is in accordance with Budapest Open Access Initiative.