ISTORIA is fully open access, and this policy follows the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing of COPE, DOAJ, OASPA, and WAME, and the COPE Core Practices. They ask a journal to:

—  state clearly, on its website and on each article, its access status, its licence, and who holds the copyright;

—  use an open licence for open-access content, and say what readers and authors may do with it;

—  state how its content is preserved for the long term, and how it is funded, including author charges;

—  tell authors, before submission, what rights they keep and what rights they give.

Each point is answered in the sections below.

Everything the journal publishes is free to read from the day of publication, for anyone, with no charge to readers or their institutions. Open access supports the exchange of knowledge that historical research is meant for: researchers, teachers, students, archivists, communities, and the public.

The journal follows the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). Readers may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and link to the full texts, crawl them for indexing, use them as data in software, and use them for any other lawful purpose under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence. The only barriers are those inherent in being online. The one requirement is that the work is credited and cited correctly.

Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-SA 4.0). You may share (copy and redistribute in any format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon) the material, on these conditions:

The licence statement and the DOI appear on the first page and the landing page of each article. Third-party material in an article, such as a figure or a photograph, may carry another licence, which is stated in its caption. Read the licence text.

—  Published up to and including 2026: copyright is held by the journal.

—  Authors grant the journal the right of first publication and the right to distribute the article under CC BY-SA 4.0.

—  Authors may make separate, non-exclusive arrangements, such as depositing the article in a repository or including it in a book, if the original publication in the journal is acknowledged.

See the Copyright Notice.

Readers pay no subscription, registration, or pay-per-view charge, and full texts need no login. Publication is supported by Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta . Authors pay an Article Publication Charge only after acceptance, and the editor may grant a waiver. See Author Fees.

There is no embargo. Articles are freely available from the moment they are published.

Authors may deposit any version of their work (preprint, accepted manuscript, or published version) in an institutional or subject repository, on a personal website, or on an academic network, at any time and without embargo. A deposited copy should cite the original publication and link to its DOI (prefix 10.21831). See the Archiving Policy.

—  Article metadata, including licence information, is available through the OJS OAI-PMH interface and Crossref, so that it can be harvested and used for text and data mining.

—  The journal is accredited SINTA 4 and indexed in Garuda, Google Scholar, and Crossref. See Indexing.

Credit the work in this form, and say if you made changes:

This policy rests on the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing (COPE, DOAJ, OASPA, and WAME), the COPE Core Practices, the Budapest Open Access Initiative, and its 20th-anniversary recommendations.

Article metadata are openly available through the OJS OAI-PMH interface and Crossref, so that indexing services, repositories, and libraries can harvest them. Full texts are freely readable without registration.