Open Access Policy

Wellspring: Journal of Sustainable Public Health provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. We are committed to fostering the dissemination of research findings to a wider community without any financial, legal, or technical barriers.

1. Free Availability

All articles published by this journal are freely accessible online immediately upon publication. Users are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.

2. Licensing and User Rights

To ensure maximum dissemination and reuse of open access materials, all articles are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This license permits sharing and adapting the material in any medium or format, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and the source, and any modified material is distributed under the same license.

3. No Subscription Fees

Wellspring: Journal of Sustainable Public Health does not charge any subscription fees, pay-per-view fees, or access charges to readers or their institutions. The full text of all content is available for free and open access to everyone.