Open Access Policy

• This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global knowledge exchange. Here are the key points of our Open Access Policy:
• Open Access: All articles published in Lontar: Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi are free to anyone without subscription fees. This means that readers can access, read, download, and distribute the full text of articles without any financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet.
• Open Access License: All articles accepted and published in this journal are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. This license allows users to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format as long as attribution is given to the original author(s) and the source. Users must provide a link to the license and indicate if changes were made.
• Repository Institutional: Authors are encouraged to deposit a copy of their full article in their institution's or any other relevant research repository. This ensures that their work is accessible to the broader public and is permanently archived.
• Fast publication: We are committed to a fast and efficient publication process. Once an article has passed the peer-review process, it will be published online immediately in electronic format (e-journal) without unnecessary delays.
• Data availability: We encourage authors to share their research data for their articles. In cases where data cannot be shared for ethical or privacy reasons, authors are expected to provide a clear explanation within the article regarding the accessibility of the data.
• Copyright Recognition: Authors retain the copyright of their work published in this journal. However, by publishing their article, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive license to distribute their work for scholarly and educational purposes.