Open Access Statement

1. Our Commitment
Devotion: Jurnal Pengabdian Psikologi is committed to the principle of open access to scholarly research. We believe that making research freely available to the public accelerates the exchange of knowledge, supports education, and increases the impact of the studies we publish. This statement explains how that commitment is put into practice, in line with the mission of our publisher, the Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Pancasila, to advance and disseminate knowledge in the field of psychology.

2. What Open Access Means for This Journal
All articles published in Devotion: Jurnal Pengabdian Psikologi are made freely available online in full text, immediately upon publication, with no subscription fee, registration barrier, or embargo period. Readers anywhere may read, download, copy, distribute, and cite these articles, in accordance with the terms of the license applied, without needing to request permission from the publisher or the authors.

3. Copyright and Licensing
Authors who publish in Devotion: Jurnal Pengabdian Psikologi retain the copyright to their own work. All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license, which permits others to:
- Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
- Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material

under the following terms:
- Attribution (BY) — appropriate credit must be given to the author(s) and to Devotion as the original source, with a link to the license and an indication of any changes made
- NonCommercial (NC) — the material may not be used for commercial purposes
- ShareAlike (SA) — if the material is remixed or built upon, the results must be distributed under the same license as the original

4. Article Processing Charge
Devotion: Jurnal Pengabdian Psikologi does not charge any fee at any stage of the publication process. There is no submission fee and no publication fee for authors.

5. Benefits of Open Access
For authors, publishing openly in Devotion: Jurnal Pengabdian Psikologi means:
- Free access for readers worldwide, without barriers
- Retention of copyright over their own work
- Greater visibility and readership
- Faster dissemination of research findings
- No geographic restriction on who can read or cite the work

For readers and the wider academic community, open access allows research and community service work in psychology to be read, applied, and built upon more quickly and more broadly, without being limited by institutional subscriptions.

6. Statement of Principle
Devotion: Jurnal Pengabdian Psikologi regards open and unrestricted access to research as essential to the advancement of knowledge and to the practical impact of psychology-based community service in Indonesia and beyond. We remain committed to a fee-free, open-access publishing model that serves both our authors and our readers.