Business Model
Revenue & Business Model
How the journal is funded.
Who pays for the journal, what it charges, and how money is kept apart from editorial decisions.
Policy update · effective from 2027
From Volume 24, No. 1 (March 2027), the APC of IDR 4,000,000 includes editing and covers the first 15 pages, with IDR 250,000 for each extra page. Up to Volume 23 (2026), editing was charged separately and the APC covered the first 10 pages.
01Business model▾
Jurnal Civics: Media Kajian Kewarganegaraan is a fully open-access journal owned and published by Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta (UNY), a public, not-for-profit institution, in collaboration with AP3KnI. In line with the COPE Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing, the journal states openly how it is funded and what it charges (principles 10, 13, 14, and 15).
| Model | Open access, funded by the publisher, the partner association, and an Article Publication Charge (APC) payable after acceptance. |
| Readers | Free. No subscription, registration, or pay-per-view fee. |
| Authors | No fee for submission or review. An APC of IDR 4,000,000 is payable only after acceptance. It includes editing and covers the first 15 pages; each page beyond 15 costs IDR 250,000. See Author Fees. |
| Licence | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. See Licensing Terms. |
02How revenue is used▾
Revenue from Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta and from APCs covers the costs of publishing: the OJS platform and hosting, Crossref DOI registration, similarity checking, copyediting and typesetting, indexing, archiving in the PKP Preservation Network, and the work of the editorial office. The journal does not operate for profit.
03COPE 5.0 alignment: AI licensing and other revenue▾
— The journal does not receive any revenue from licensing its content to AI companies or for text and data mining. Any such agreement in future will be disclosed on this page.
— No source of revenue (APC, institutional funding, sponsorship, or licensing) influences editorial decisions.
— Planned changes to author fees are announced on the Author Fees page before they take effect.
04Sources of revenue▾
| Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta | Owner and publisher. Funds and hosts the journal, including the editorial office and the journal platform (Open Journal Systems). |
| AP3KnI | Asosiasi Profesi Pendidikan Pancasila dan Kewarganegaraan Indonesia. Collaboration partner since 2019. Co-funds the journal with UNY. |
| Article Publication Charge | Covers web publication with a DOI, similarity checking, technical editing, indexing, archiving, and digital preservation. |
05What the journal does not do▾
— Carry advertising or sponsored content. If this ever changes, an advertising policy will be published first, and advertising will be kept separate from editorial content and decisions.
— Charge readers for access.
— Charge for submission or peer review.
— Sell or share the personal data of authors, reviewers, or readers. See the Privacy Statement.
06Waivers▾
Authors may ask for a full or partial waiver in the Comments to the Editor box when they submit, for example students and early-career researchers without funding, authors from low-income or lower-middle-income countries, and research without grant funding. The eligibility criteria and how to apply are set out on the Author Fees page. A request for a waiver, and whether a waiver is granted, does not affect the review result.
07Changes to the model▾
Any change to the business model, the APC, or other charges is announced in advance on the Author Fees page and in Announcements, at least three months before it takes effect. Manuscripts submitted before the change are charged at the rate shown when they were submitted.
08Editorial independence▾
— Fees, funding, and partnerships play no part in editorial decisions. Manuscripts are judged only on their scholarly merit, through double-anonymous peer review. See the Peer Review Process.
— The APC is requested only after the decision to accept, so payment cannot influence the review.
— Neither UNY nor AP3KnI decides on individual manuscripts. See Ownership and Management.
