Turkish Journal of Family Medicine and Primary care (TJFMPC) is an open access journal, which means that all content is freely accessible to the user or his/her institution. The full text of articles in TJFMPC can be accessed, read, saved, copied, printed, scanned, linked to the full text, indexed, transferred as data to software, and used for any legal purpose, without prior permission from the publisher or author, ‘without financial, legal or technical barriers, through the medium of the Internet’. This is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative's (BOAI) definition of open access.

BOAI grew out of a meeting organised by the Open Society Institute (OSI) in Budapest on 1 - 2 December 2001. The aim of the meeting was to accelerate progress in the international effort to make research papers in all academic fields freely available on the Internet. Participants represented many viewpoints, many academic disciplines, many nations, and had to experience many of the ongoing initiatives that make up the open access movement. In Budapest, they explored how to separate initiatives that could work together to achieve broader, deeper and faster success. They explored the most effective and cost-efficient strategies to serve the interests of research, researchers and the organisations and communities that support research. Finally, they explored how OSI and other foundations can most efficiently utilise their resources to assist the transition to open access and make open access publishing economically self-sustaining. The result was the Budapest Open Access Initiative. The Budapest Open Access Initiative is a statement of principle, a strategy and a commitment.