Diamond Open Access
JDHAB provides immediate access to published content without subscription fees for readers or publication charges for authors.
Funding
JOURNAL SUSTAINABILITY
Funding
The Journal of Digital Health and Advanced Biomaterials — JDHAB operates under a Diamond Open Access model, supported by institutional sponsorship and independent scientific infrastructure services while preserving editorial independence, scientific integrity, and the absence of publication charges for authors.
LifeDent Esthetic Clinic is the founding sponsor of the Journal of Digital Health and Advanced Biomaterials (JDHAB).
The sponsor provides financial and technical support for the journal’s infrastructure, publishing platform, operational sustainability, and long-term development as a scholarly publication.
Funding Principles
Institutional Support
Operational and technical support contributes to platform maintenance, publishing infrastructure, and long-term journal development.
Editorial Independence
Sponsorship and infrastructure services have no influence on peer review, editorial decisions, acceptance, publication timing, or journal policy.
Transparency
Any future change in funding, sponsorship, infrastructure support, or publication fee policy will be publicly communicated by the journal.
Funding Model
Diamond Open Access Model
JDHAB operates under a Diamond Open Access model, providing immediate and unrestricted access to all published content without subscription fees for readers and without publication charges for authors.
Scientific Infrastructure and Sustainability
AXIS Platform Core
JDHAB’s long-term sustainability may also be supported by independent scientific infrastructure and institutional services developed through AXIS Platform Core .
AXIS provides infrastructure-oriented services related to scientific asset identity, provenance, integrity, preservation, structured metadata, documentation, and institutional scope analysis.
Revenue generated through these services may contribute to the maintenance and continued development of JDHAB while helping preserve its Diamond Open Access model.
Strict Separation from Editorial Decisions
AXIS services are operationally and ethically separate from JDHAB’s editorial evaluation, peer-review process, and publication decisions.
The purchase or use of any AXIS service does not provide submission priority, expedited review, preferential editorial access, favorable evaluation, manuscript acceptance, publication, DOI assignment, indexing, certification of scientific quality, or recognition of scientific merit.
Authors and institutions are never required to use AXIS services in order to submit, review, publish, read, or reuse content in JDHAB.
Author Fees
No Submission Fees
JDHAB does not charge authors any fee for manuscript submission.
No Article Processing Charges
JDHAB does not currently charge publication fees or article processing charges for accepted manuscripts.
Editorial Independence
Independence from Sponsorship Influence
Financial support, sponsorship, and infrastructure services have no influence on editorial evaluation, peer review, acceptance decisions, publication timing, or editorial policies.
All editorial decisions are based exclusively on scientific merit, methodological quality, ethical compliance, and relevance to the journal’s scope.
Equal Treatment of Authors
Funding support does not provide preferential treatment to any author, institution, sponsor, service user, editor, reviewer, or affiliated organization.
All submissions are evaluated according to the same editorial and peer-review standards.
Transparency
Public Communication of Funding Changes
Any future change to the journal’s funding structure, sponsorship arrangements, scientific infrastructure support, or publication fee model will be publicly communicated through the journal website and reflected in the journal’s official policies.
Commitment to Independent Open Access Publishing
JDHAB’s funding model is designed to support long-term editorial sustainability while preserving open access, author equity, scientific independence, transparent governance, and responsible scholarly communication.
JDHAB publishes science openly. AXIS provides independent scientific infrastructure. Financial sustainability must support scientific integrity and must never determine scientific merit.
