Reinwardtia is a peer-reviewed scientific journal committed to the open dissemination of knowledge. In alignment with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) and the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (2021), Reinwardtia provides immediate, free, and unrestricted access to its published content. The journal operates in full compliance with the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) criteria and the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.

1. Definition of Open Access

Reinwardtia defines Open Access as the unrestricted availability of research outputs on the public internet. Users are permitted to:

• Read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of articles.


• Crawl articles for indexing or utilize them for any other lawful purpose.


• Access content without financial, legal, or technical barriers, aside from those inherent in gaining internet access itself.

All articles are made openly available immediately upon publication without an embargo period, and are delivered in formats that support both reuse and machine-readability.

2. Author Copyright

Authors publishing in Reinwardtia retain full copyright of their work. By submitting a manuscript, authors grant Reinwardtia a non-exclusive license to publish, distribute, and archive the article in both print and digital formats.

The official copyright notice is detailed at : https://biologyjournal.brin.go.id/index.php/reinwardtia/CopyrightNotice

3. Licensing (for CC-BY-SA)

All articles published in [Journal] are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Reinwardtia by BRIN is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at brin.go.id.

This license allows others to remix, adapt, and build upon the work even for commercial purposes, provided they give appropriate credit to the original author and license their new creations under identical terms. This policy ensures a vibrant ecosystem of knowledge sharing while guaranteeing that any derivative works remain open and accessible to the public under the exact same conditions.

4. Article Processing Charges (APC)

Reinwardtia is a diamond open access journal, meaning that:

• No submission fees are charged.


• No article processing charges (APCs) are imposed on authors.

All publication costs are fully funded by the journal’s publisher to promote equity in scholarly communication. Author Fee Policy can also be found at: https://biologyjournal.brin.go.id/index.php/reinwardtia/authorfees