Open Access and Access Policy
1. Open Access Policy
Al-Muhafidz: Jurnal Ilmu Al-Qur'an dan Tafsir is a fully open-access journal. All research articles can be read and downloaded free of charge, are available immediately on publication, and have no subscription fees, access charges, registration requirements, or embargo periods.
2. Licence
Unless a specific item of third-party material is clearly marked otherwise, articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). Under this licence, users may:
- share and redistribute the material in any medium or format;
- adapt, remix, transform, translate, and build upon the material;
- use the material for commercial as well as non-commercial purposes.
These uses are permitted provided that credit is given to the author(s), the original place of publication is acknowledged, a link to the CC BY 4.0 licence is included, and any changes are clearly indicated. No further permission from the authors, journal, or publisher is needed for uses that comply with the licence.
3. Copyright
Copyright remains with the author(s). By publishing, authors grant the journal the right of first publication and authorise the journal and its publisher to publish and distribute the article under CC BY 4.0. The journal does not require authors to transfer copyright as a condition of publication. Authors remain free to reuse, distribute, deposit, translate, or otherwise make lawful use of their work under the licence.
4. Self-Archiving and Repositories
Authors may deposit the published version of their article, without any embargo, in institutional repositories, disciplinary or university repositories, personal or academic websites, and scholarly profile or research networks. When doing so, authors should credit Al-Muhafidz: Jurnal Ilmu Al-Qur'an dan Tafsir as the original place of publication, include the article's DOI, and link to the official journal version where available.
5. Indexing and Machine Access
Subject to the applicable licence, journal content and metadata may be searched, linked, crawled, harvested, indexed, and analysed by academic search engines, library discovery systems, indexing services, repositories, citation databases, and text- and data-mining systems. Al-Muhafidz: Jurnal Ilmu Al-Qur'an dan Tafsir is currently indexed or listed in DOAJ, SINTA, Dimensions, Garuda, and Moraref.
6. Third-Party Material
Articles may include photographs, figures, maps, tables, datasets, quotations, illustrations, instruments, or other material subject to separate copyright or licence terms. Such material should be clearly identified. Users must obtain permission from the rights holder where their intended reuse is not covered by an exception, limitation, or open licence.
7. Open Access Summary
| Aspect | Provision |
|---|---|
| Reader Access | Open and free of charge. |
| Registration | Note Required. |
| Embargo | None. |
| Copyright | Retained by the author(s). |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Commercial Use | Permitted with attribution. |
| Adaptation / Derivative Works | Permitted with attribution. |
| Self-Archiving | Permitted without embargo. |
8. Access policy
Readers can view articles directly without a subscription, payment, institutional affiliation, or account. Articles are available in PDF, HTML, or both, depending on what is provided for each article. Each article page includes bibliographic information and links to the full text.
The journal does not charge readers any subscription, pay-per-view, download, or other access fee. The Article Processing Charge (APC), where applicable, is paid by authors, not readers. Details are published on the Author Fees page.
Accounts are needed only for certain functions, such as submitting manuscripts, assigning reviewers, and editorial administration. These functions are separate from public reading access. Personal data is handled according to the Privacy Statement.
Public access does not automatically extend to submitted manuscripts, private correspondence, reviewer reports, or internal editorial records, which are governed by the Confidentiality policy. Research data outside the published article may be restricted for reasons of privacy, participant consent, contracts, or other legitimate grounds; availability is described in each article's Data Availability statement. Removal or restriction of published material for compelling legal, privacy, or safety reasons follows the Scholarly Record Updates policy and is distinct from any subscription barrier or embargo.
The journal aims to keep access open to readers wherever they are. Temporary outages, broken links, or unintended barriers may occur and can be reported to [access problems email]. Any technical security measures should be proportionate and should not unnecessarily block legitimate reading, downloading, or indexing.
Long-term continuity, preservation, and repository arrangements are set out in the Digital Archiving and Repository policies.
