About the Journal

Open Acces Policy

This journal is an open-access journal that provides free access to the full text of all published articles without charging readers or their institutions for access. Readers have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of all articles in the Blambangan Journal of Nursing and Health Sciences (BJNHS). This journal 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.

BJNHS is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration

Peer Review Process

Every article that goes to the editor will be selected in advance on the scope and feasibility of the editorial board. Then, the articles will be sent to peer reviewers and will go to the next selection by the Blind Preview Process. Reviewers are unaware of the identity of the authors, and authors are also unaware of the identity of reviewers. Every submitted paper will be reviewed by at least two peer reviewers. After that, the articles will be returned to the authors for revision. The reviewing process will consider novelty, objectivity, method, scientific impact, conclusion, and references.

1. Manuscript submission by author.
2. The editor does an initial review of the manuscript. Editors have a right to directly accept, reject, or review. Prior to further processing steps, a plagiarism check using Turnitin is applied for each manuscript.
3. The manuscript reviewing process is done by at least two reviewers.
4. Editor gives notification of manuscript acceptance, minor/major revision, or rejection to the author(s), based on reviewers' comments.
5. Paper Revision (by author).
6. The author(s) revise the submission based on the reviewer's suggestion.
7. If the reviewer and editor seem to be satisfied with the revision, notification for acceptance (by the editor).
8. Galley proof and publishing process