JICE makes articles published on its current platform openly available upon publication. Readers are not required to pay subscription fees or per-article access charges to access the published full text.

Subject to the license and any third-party rights applying to an individual article, readers may:

• Access: Read, download, print, search, and link to published articles free of charge.
• Share: Copy and redistribute licensed material in any medium or format.
• Reuse: Adapt, transform, and build upon licensed material where permitted by the applicable license and its conditions.

Open access does not remove the obligation to acknowledge original authorship, comply with the applicable reuse license, or respect separately identified third-party materials.

Authors retain copyright in their scholarly works and grant JICE a non-exclusive right of first publication, together with the rights needed to publish and preserve the scholarly record. Copyright is not transferred to JICE as a condition of publication.

Articles published under the journal's current licensing policy are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Use and redistribution under CC BY-SA 4.0 are subject to the following conditions:

• Attribution: Give appropriate credit to the authors, acknowledge the original publication, provide a link to the license, and indicate whether changes were made.
• ShareAlike: When licensed content is adapted and shared, distribute the adaptation under CC BY-SA 4.0 or another license recognized as compatible under its terms.
• No additional restrictions: Do not impose legal terms or technological restrictions that prevent others from exercising rights granted by the license.
• Third-party materials: Observe any separate copyright or license notices applying to images, figures, datasets, or other third-party content.

See the journal's Copyright and Licensing Policy for further details.

Open access for readers is free of charge. JICE does not impose subscription fees or article download charges. Publication costs are addressed separately through the journal's author fee policy.

Beginning with Volume 7, Issue 2 (July 2026), an Article Processing Charge (APC) applies to accepted articles: IDR 350,000 per article for Indonesian authors and USD 20 per article for international authors. No APC is requested at initial submission.

Authors experiencing financial difficulty may request an APC waiver by contacting the editorial office. Waiver requests are considered individually and require confirmation by the journal. Authors should contact the editorial office after acceptance for official payment instructions.

For current charges, payment procedures, and waiver information, consult the Author Fees Policy.

Published articles and available issues can be accessed through the current JICE online publishing platform:

Some historical publication records from the journal's previous publishing platform may not currently be accessible through the present website due to earlier technical disruptions. JICE is coordinating the verification and potential recovery of historical article files and bibliographic records where reliable sources are available.

The journal does not represent that all historical materials have already been restored. Its approach to continuity, records recovery, backups, and long-term preservation is described in the Archiving and Digital Preservation Policy.

JICE seeks to promote equitable access to civil engineering research, improve the discoverability and responsible reuse of publications, and support scholarly communication among researchers, practitioners, institutions, and the public.

The editorial team is committed to transparent copyright and licensing information, clear distinctions between reader access and publication fees, and continuous improvement of electronic access and preservation arrangements.

This policy will be reviewed periodically to remain consistent with JICE's actual publishing practices, applicable licensing arrangements, and internationally recognized open access principles.