Open Access Statement

Tekinfo Transactions on Software Engineering (InfoSE) is a fully open-access journal. Every article published in InfoSE is made freely, permanently, and unconditionally available online to any reader in any country, immediately upon publication and without requiring registration, subscription, or payment of any kind. InfoSE believes that open access to peer-reviewed research accelerates scientific discovery, enables equitable participation in the global scholarly conversation, and maximises the social impact of publicly funded research. This commitment is absolute and unconditional — it applies to every article, in every issue, for the lifetime of the journal.

Our Open Access Model

InfoSE operates under the Diamond Open Access model — a form of open access in which neither authors nor readers bear any publication costs. There are no Article Processing Charges (APC), no submission fees, no page charges, and no charges of any kind at any stage of the publication process. Publication costs are met entirely by Jurusan Teknologi Informasi, Politeknik Negeri Padang, as part of its institutional commitment to advancing scientific communication in software engineering. Diamond Open Access is considered the most equitable form of scholarly publishing because it removes financial barriers for both producers and consumers of research, ensuring that the ability to publish and to access research is not contingent on financial resources.

Licence and Reuse Rights

All articles published in InfoSE are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This license grants anyone the freedom to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of any article, and to adapt or build upon the work for any purpose, including commercial applications, provided that the original work is properly attributed and that any derivative work is distributed under the same license. The ShareAlike condition — the copyleft mechanism — ensures that the openness of the original work is preserved through all successive derivative uses. Copyright remains with the authors. The journal does not claim copyright over any article published within its pages.

Immediate and Permanent Access

No embargo
InfoSE does not impose any embargo period on its published content. Every article becomes openly accessible at the exact moment of its online publication. There is no delayed access arrangement, no tiered access system, and no period during which access to any part of the journal's content is restricted to subscribers or institutional members.

Permanent archiving
To ensure the long-term preservation and continued accessibility of all published content, InfoSE participates in the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) and CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) digital preservation programmes. These distributed archiving systems maintain multiple independent copies of the journal's content across a global network of participating libraries, ensuring that published articles remain accessible even in the event of technical failure or discontinuation of the journal's primary platform. Every published article is additionally assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), providing a permanent and stable hyperlink that will continue to resolve to the article's location regardless of any changes to the journal's URL or hosting infrastructure.

Machine-readable access
InfoSE supports programmatic and machine-readable access to its published content through standard metadata protocols. The journal's metadata is made available for harvesting via the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), enabling indexing by academic search engines, discovery platforms, and research databases. This ensures that articles published in InfoSE are discoverable through a wide range of scholarly platforms and remain accessible to both human readers and automated research tools.

Author Self-Archiving Policy

In keeping with its open-access principles, InfoSE actively encourages authors to self-archive their work. Authors are permitted to deposit the preprint version of their manuscript on any open repository or preprint server before or during the review process. Following acceptance and publication, authors are encouraged to deposit the accepted manuscript or the final published version of record in their institutional repository, disciplinary repository, or any other open platform. All deposited versions should prominently cite the original publication in InfoSE and include a link to the published article via its DOI. There are no restrictions on self-archiving at any stage of the publication lifecycle.

Commitment to Research Equity

InfoSE recognises that access to knowledge is not uniformly distributed across the global research community. Researchers at institutions with limited library budgets, scholars in low- and middle-income countries, independent researchers, and practitioners in industry often face significant barriers to accessing subscription-based literature. By publishing under a Diamond Open Access model with no fees for authors or readers, InfoSE actively works to reduce these inequities. The journal is particularly committed to providing a rigorous and accessible publication venue for researchers in the Indonesian polytechnic sector and the broader Southeast Asian academic community, while simultaneously welcoming contributions from and remaining accessible to the global software engineering research community.

Indexing and Discoverability

InfoSE is committed to maximising the discoverability of its published content through indexing in major academic databases and directories. The journal is actively pursuing registration and indexing with the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Sinta (Science and Technology Index, Indonesia), Google Scholar, Dimensions, and other relevant indexing platforms. Indexing in these databases ensures that articles published in InfoSE are visible to the widest possible audience of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers working in software engineering and related fields. Open access to content is a necessary but not sufficient condition for impact; discoverability and indexing ensure that the work reaches those who can benefit from it most.

Relationship to Open Science

InfoSE's open-access policy is grounded in a broader commitment to the principles of open science. The journal encourages authors to practise transparent and reproducible research by making their datasets, software, and other research outputs openly available wherever feasible. Authors are encouraged to deposit research data in appropriate repositories and to reference these deposits in their published articles. Open peer review, while not currently mandatory, is under consideration as a future option for authors who wish to make their review correspondence publicly available alongside their published article. The journal regards open access, open data, and open methods as complementary pillars of a research culture that is honest, verifiable, and built for collective progress.

Open Access model: Diamond Open Access — no APC, no reader fees
License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Copyright: Retained by authors
Embargo: None — immediate open access upon publication
Archiving: LOCKSS and CLOCKSS
Metadata harvesting: OAI-PMH compliant
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/