Leadership in Health Services (LHS) is committed to ensuring that high-quality research in healthcare leadership is accessible to all. Open access supports the journal’s mission to expand the reach, influence, and practical value of leadership research by removing barriers to knowledge.
Open access at LHS is grounded in the principle that leadership knowledge should circulate freely across professional, academic, and policy environments. LHS aims to strengthen the connection between research and practice by allowing unrestricted access to current findings, theoretical developments, and applied studies. By eliminating subscription barriers, LHS increases global engagement with healthcare leadership research, enabling evidence-based decision-making, fostering cross-sector collaboration, and supporting the advancement of leadership capacity in diverse health systems.
All accepted articles in LHS are made permanently available online, free to read, share, and cite. This ensures that published research remains discoverable and citable long after publication, fostering collaboration across disciplines and geographical boundaries.
To sustain the costs associated with peer review, editing, production, indexing, and digital preservation, an Article Processing Charge (APC) is applied to accepted manuscripts. The APC is payable only once the article has been formally accepted for publication, ensuring that payment does not influence the editorial decision.
Authors are encouraged to confirm whether their institution or funding body supports open access publishing, as many organisations have arrangements or funds in place to cover APCs.
LHS supports compliance with international open access mandates and indexing standards. All published articles are assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and are permanently archived through Zenodo, ensuring long-term preservation and accessibility. Articles are also indexed in recognised scholarly databases to enhance global visibility, citation, and integration into the wider body of health leadership research.
LHS upholds open access not simply as a publication model, but as a principle of transparency, equity, and scholarly progress. By making leadership research freely accessible, LHS to more informed decision-making, evidence-based management, and stronger health systems worldwide.
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