Smart: Journal of Healthcare (SHealth) is strictly committed to the principles of Open Access publishing. We believe that freely disseminating scientific research and clinical findings is fundamental to advancing global medical knowledge, accelerating scientific discovery, and improving health outcomes across diverse populations.

To fulfill this mission, SHealth operates under a Gold Open Access model and fully adheres to the definition of Open Access established by the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI).

1. Unrestricted Access to Research

In accordance with the BOAI definition, all articles published in SHealth are made immediately and permanently freely available on the public internet.

Users are universally granted the right to:

• Read

• Download

• Copy

• Distribute

• Print

• Search

• Link to the full texts of these articles.

• Crawl them for indexing

• Pass them as data to software

• Use them for any other lawful purpose

All of these actions can be performed without any financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. Users are not required to register, subscribe, or seek prior permission from the publisher or the author to access the published content.

2. Absence of Paywalls and Subscriptions

SHealth explicitly does not charge subscription fees, pay-per-view fees, or impose any form of paywall on its readers or their affiliated institutions. The entirety of the journal's published content including original research, reviews, case reports, and supplementary materials is accessible to researchers, clinicians, policymakers, students, and the general public worldwide at zero cost.

3. Interplay with Licensing and Copyright

The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, is to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.

As detailed in our Copyright and License Statement, this Open Access framework is legally supported by the application of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). Authors retain the copyright to their work, while society benefits from the unrestricted, immediate access to the published research.

4. Archiving and Preservation

To guarantee long-term Open Access and the enduring availability of the scholarly record, SHealth ensures that all published articles are securely archived in recognized digital preservation repositories (such as the Public Knowledge Project Preservation Network - PKP PN, LOCKSS, or CLOCKSS) immediately upon publication.