Open Access Declaration of VARIANSI Journal

1. Open Access Commitment

VARIANSI Journal is a fully open-access journal. All published articles may be freely accessed, read, downloaded, copied, distributed, printed, searched, or linked in full by anyone worldwide, without subscription fees, paid registration, or any special permission from the publisher.

2. Policy Basis

VARIANSI's open access policy is grounded in the following frameworks:

• Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI, 2002): defines open access as the free availability on the public internet of peer-reviewed scholarly literature.
• Regulation of the Minister of Research, Technology, and Higher Education No. 9 of 2018: encourages the electronic publication of scholarly journals with open access.
• DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) Standards: the international standard for quality open-access journals.

3. Types of Open Access Adopted

Access Type	Applied in VARIANSI?	Description
Immediate Open Access	YES	All articles are publicly available immediately upon publication. No embargo period is applied.
Free for Readers	YES	No access, download, or subscription fees are charged to readers.
Free for Authors	NO	See the separate APC Policy.
Full Electronic Format	YES	Articles are available in PDF format and may be downloaded in full.
Machine-Readable Access	YES	Article metadata is available in machine-readable format via the OJS OAI-PMH protocol for indexing purposes.
Paid Print Edition	NO	VARIANSI does not publish a print edition. All issues are digital.

4. Content License

VARIANSI articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. License details are available in the Copyright Notice.

5. Benefits of Open Access to the Scholarly Community

• Enhances the visibility and accessibility of research findings to both national and international scholarly communities.
• Supports the dissemination of statistics and its applications to practitioners, educators, and policymakers who may not have access to subscription-based journals.
• Contributes to greater citation impact, as a larger number of researchers can access and cite the work.
• Supports UNM's mission to educate society and contribute to national development through the wider dissemination of knowledge.

6. Indexing and Metadata

To further enhance accessibility, VARIANSI article metadata (title, authors, abstract, keywords, DOI) is registered and discoverable through:

• Google Scholar
• BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
• Dimensions
• GARUDA (Garba Rujukan Digital)
• Indonesia One Search
• CrossRef (via DOI)