The Healthcare Quality Professionals Journal follows an open access policy to support the free and wider dissemination of scholarly and professional knowledge in healthcare quality, patient safety, hospital administration, clinical governance, public health, healthcare management, and allied health sciences.
The journal believes that research related to healthcare improvement, patient safety, clinical quality, health systems, and professional practice should be accessible to healthcare professionals, researchers, students, faculty members, institutions, libraries, policy makers, and readers without unnecessary barriers.
Open Access Statement
Healthcare Quality Professionals Journal provides open access to its published content so that readers may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, cite, and use published articles for lawful academic, educational, research, teaching, clinical learning, professional, and healthcare improvement purposes with proper acknowledgment of the original authors and source.
Open access helps increase the visibility, readership, citation potential, and practical impact of published healthcare quality research. It also supports knowledge sharing among hospitals, healthcare institutions, universities, public health organizations, and professional communities.
Purpose of Open Access
Knowledge Sharing
To make healthcare quality and patient safety research available to a wider academic and professional audience.
Healthcare Improvement
To support the use of published studies for improving healthcare systems, safety practices, and service delivery.
Academic Support
To help students, researchers, faculty members, and libraries access reliable scholarly healthcare material.
Professional Learning
To support healthcare quality professionals, clinicians, nurses, and managers in continuous professional development.
Global Access
To allow readers from different countries, institutions, and healthcare settings to access published research.
Ethical Use
To promote responsible use of published content with proper citation, author credit, and respect for publication ethics.
Reader Rights
Readers may use published articles from the journal for genuine academic, educational, research, teaching, healthcare quality improvement, clinical learning, policy reference, and professional development purposes, provided that proper credit is given to the original author, article title, journal name, and publication details.
- Readers may access published articles for academic and professional use.
- Articles may be downloaded and printed for personal study, teaching, or scholarly reference.
- Researchers may cite published work in theses, dissertations, reports, books, and research papers.
- Healthcare professionals may use articles for learning, training, audit, and quality improvement discussion.
- Libraries may include article links and metadata in catalogues, subject guides, and e-resource lists.
- Users must not misuse, misrepresent, alter, or copy published content without proper acknowledgment.
Author Rights
Authors retain responsibility for the originality, accuracy, ethical compliance, patient confidentiality, data integrity, citation quality, and professional relevance of their published work. Authors may share their published articles for academic and professional purposes according to the journal’s open access policy.
- Authors may share the official published article link with colleagues, students, institutions, and professional networks.
- Authors may use their published work for teaching, academic profile, institutional reporting, and professional communication.
- Authors should cite the final published version correctly when reusing their own work.
- Authors must not submit the same article for duplicate publication in another journal.
- Authors should follow journal policies, publication ethics, and citation requirements.
Permitted Uses
| Reading | Published articles may be read online by students, researchers, healthcare professionals, faculty members, institutions, and general academic readers. |
| Downloading | Articles may be downloaded for lawful personal, academic, educational, clinical learning, research, or professional reference purposes. |
| Citation | Published work may be cited in research papers, theses, dissertations, reports, healthcare policy documents, books, and academic presentations with proper reference. |
| Teaching and Training | Faculty members, healthcare trainers, and institutions may use articles for classroom teaching, professional training, workshops, seminars, and academic discussion. |
| Library Listing | Libraries may list the journal and article links in catalogues, e-resource portals, healthcare subject guides, and institutional research support pages. |
Responsible Use
- Give proper credit to original authors.
- Cite the journal name correctly.
- Use published content for lawful and ethical purposes.
- Do not alter healthcare findings in a misleading way.
- Do not remove author names, article title, or citation details.
- Respect patient confidentiality and publication ethics.
Not Permitted
- Plagiarism or copied use without citation
- False claim of authorship
- Commercial misuse without permission where required
- Misrepresentation of healthcare data or findings
- Unauthorized alteration of published content
- Use of content for unlawful, unsafe, or unethical purposes
Citation Requirement
Users must cite the original article whenever they use, quote, refer to, discuss, summarize, or rely upon published content from the Healthcare Quality Professionals Journal. Proper citation helps maintain academic honesty, protects author credit, and supports responsible healthcare scholarship.
- Author name should be mentioned correctly.
- Article title should be cited accurately.
- The journal name should be written as Healthcare Quality Professionals Journal.
- ISSN 3117-7492 may be included where required by institutional or citation format.
- Volume, issue, year, page number or article number, and article link should be included where available.
- Users should follow the citation style required by their institution, journal, or discipline.
Open Access and Healthcare Scholarship
Open access is important for healthcare scholarship because research on patient safety, quality improvement, clinical governance, health policy, infection control, hospital administration, and service delivery can support better healthcare systems and professional practice.
By providing open access, the journal supports the wider use of published research by healthcare professionals, academic institutions, public health organizations, policy readers, and quality improvement teams.
Archiving and Long-Term Access
Healthcare Quality Professionals Journal supports continued availability of published articles for academic reference, library use, institutional access, professional learning, and scholarly citation. Article metadata, references, and official links may be used for discovery, indexing, cataloguing, archiving, and research support where applicable.
- Published articles may be used for academic record and citation purposes.
- Libraries may preserve article details for reference and discovery.
- Authors may share official article links for scholarly communication.
- Readers should use the official published version for accurate citation.
Important Note
Healthcare Quality Professionals Journal provides open access to published content to support healthcare education, research, patient safety, quality improvement, professional learning, citation, and academic knowledge sharing. Users must cite published articles properly and must not misuse, copy, misrepresent, or alter content in an unethical or misleading manner.