Open Access Policy

Open Access Policy

The Pakistan Journal of Occupational Therapy and Health (PJOTH) is committed to the principles of open science and scholarly transparency. In line with international standards for academic publishing, PJOTH adopts a fully open-access model to promote the rapid and unrestricted dissemination of knowledge in the field of occupational therapy and health sciences.

Free and Unlimited Access

  • All articles published in PJOTH are freely accessible online, without subscription or registration barriers. This ensures that students, researchers, clinicians, educators, policymakers, and the general public can read, download, and share the full text of published articles at no cost.
  • No prior permission is required for scholarly or commercial reuse of PJOTH content, provided that appropriate citation and acknowledgment of the journal as the original source is made.

Author Rights and Licensing

  • Upon submission and acceptance of their manuscript, authors grant PJOTH a non-exclusive publishing license, allowing the journal to publish, reproduce, distribute, and communicate the work to the public in any medium or format, for educational and academic purposes.
  • Authors retain full moral rights and intellectual ownership of their work.

Creative Commons Licensing (CC BY 4.0)

All articles in PJOTH are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Under this license:

  • Users are free to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work, and make derivative works, even for commercial purposes, provided they give appropriate credit to the original authors and source (PJOTH), indicate any changes made, and do not imply endorsement by the authors or journal.
  • The license ensures maximum visibility and impact for the authors’ work, while preserving proper academic attribution.

For more information about CC BY 4.0, visit: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

PJOTH believes that removing access barriers contributes to greater global dissemination of knowledge and supports innovation, education, and practice in the occupational therapy and allied health professions.