About the Journal

Ilmu Budaya: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Seni, dan Budaya is a peer-reviewed and open-access scientific journal managed by the Faculty of Cultural Studies, Mulawarman University, Indonesia. This journal is published four times a year in January, April, July, and October.

Ilmu Budaya: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Seni, dan Budaya accepts submissions of original articles publishes research results in the fields of culture, literature, language, and arts that have not been published elsewhere or processed for publication anywhere and demonstrate no plagiarism. All published articles have been reviewed by peer-reviewers and edited by editors. At least some review partners will review the submitted manuscripts. Manuscript submissions are open throughout the year. Before submission, please ensure that the manuscript is in Indonesian or English, follows the focus and scope author's guidelines, and that your paper is prepared using the journal template. The manuscript's prerequisites, standards, and format are listed in the author's guidelines and templates.

In 2019, Ilmu Budaya: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Seni, dan Budaya received accreditation at Sinta level 4 from the Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education of the Republic of Indonesia, as per Decree No. 36/E/KPT/2019 dated December 13, 2019. The accreditation is valid for 5 years, starting from Volume 3 Number 4 (2019) to Volume 8 Number 1 (2024).

e-ISSN: 2549-7715

Ilmu Budaya: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Seni, dan Budaya 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.

This journal is an open-access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to users or/institutions. Users can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to full-text articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or author. It is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative.

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An old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an unprecedented public good. The old tradition is the willingness of scientists and scholars to publish the fruits of their research in scholarly journals without payment, for the sake of inquiry and knowledge. The new technology is the internet. The public good they make possible is the world-wide electronic distribution of the peer-reviewed journal literature and completely free and unrestricted access to it by all scientists, scholars, teachers, students, and other curious minds. Removing access barriers to this literature will accelerate research, enrich education, share the learning of the rich with the poor and the poor with the rich, make this literature as useful as it can be, and lay the foundation for uniting humanity in a common intellectual conversation and quest for knowledge.

For various reasons, this kind of free and unrestricted online availability, which we will call open access, has so far been limited to small portions of the journal literature. But even in these limited collections, many different initiatives have shown that open access is economically feasible, that it gives readers extraordinary power to find and make use of relevant literature, and that it gives authors and their works vast and measurable new visibility, readership, and impact. To secure these benefits for all, we call on all interested institutions and individuals to help open up access to the rest of this literature and remove the barriers, especially the price barriers, that stand in the way. The more who join the effort to advance this cause, the sooner we will all enjoy the benefits of open access.

The literature that should be freely accessible online is that which scholars give to the world without expectation of payment. Primarily, this category encompasses their peer-reviewed journal articles, but it also includes any unreviewed preprints that they might wish to put online for comment or to alert colleagues to important research findings. There are many degrees and kinds of wider and easier access to this literature. By “open access” to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users 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 financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.

While the peer-reviewed journal literature should be accessible online without cost to readers, it is not costless to produce. However, experiments show that the overall costs of providing open access to this literature are far lower than the costs of traditional forms of dissemination. With such an opportunity to save money and expand the scope of dissemination at the same time, there is today a strong incentive for professional associations, universities, libraries, foundations, and others to embrace open access as a means of advancing their missions. Achieving open access will require new cost recovery models and financing mechanisms, but the significantly lower overall cost of dissemination is a reason to be confident that the goal is attainable and not merely preferable or utopian.

To achieve open access to scholarly journal literature, we recommend two complementary strategies:

• I. Self-Archiving: First, scholars need the tools and assistance to deposit their refereed journal articles in open electronic archives, a practice commonly called self-archiving. When these archives conform to standards created by the Open Archives Initiative, then search engines and other tools can treat the separate archives as one.
• II. Open-access Journals: Second, scholars need the means to launch a new generation of journals committed to open access, and to help existing journals that elect to make the transition to open access. Because price is a barrier to access, these new journals will not charge subscription or access fees, and will turn to other methods for covering their expenses.

Open access to peer-reviewed journal literature is the goal. Self-archiving (I.) and a new generation of open-access journals (II.) are the ways to attain this goal. The Open Society Institute is committed to providing initial help and funding to realize this goal.