Open Access and Licensing Policy

Purpose

Al-Qamar is committed to open access, responsible reuse, proper attribution, and wide scholarly circulation of academic research. This policy explains the journal’s open-access model, copyright position, licensing terms, author rights, reader rights, reuse permissions, repository policy, and requirements for third-party material.

This policy applies to all articles published in Al-Qamar unless otherwise stated.

Open Access Policy

Al-Qamar is an open-access journal. Readers, researchers, students, teachers, libraries, and institutions are not charged for access to published content.

All published articles are made freely available online through the official journal website to support research, teaching, citation, academic exchange, and public scholarly access.

License

All articles published in Al-Qamar are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), unless otherwise stated.

License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This license permits use, sharing, distribution, reproduction, and adaptation in any medium or format, provided that the original author(s), article title, journal, source, and license are properly credited.

Official License Statement

All articles published in Al-Qamar are open-access articles distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which permits use, distribution, reproduction, and adaptation in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are properly credited.

Copyright

Authors retain copyright of their published work. By publishing with Al-Qamar, authors agree that their article will be published as an open-access work under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), unless otherwise stated.

The journal does not use restrictive copyright language that conflicts with CC BY 4.0. Published articles may be read, downloaded, copied, shared, distributed, cited, and reused according to the terms of the license.

Author Rights and Self-Archiving

Authors may:

  • Share the published article link
  • Deposit the published version in institutional repositories
  • Deposit the published version in subject repositories
  • Share the article on personal academic websites
  • Use the article in teaching and research
  • Include the article in academic profiles, CVs, and portfolios
  • Use the article in future scholarly work with proper citation
  • Distribute the article under the terms of CC BY 4.0

Authors are encouraged to cite and link to the official version of record published on the Al-Qamar website.

Reader and User Rights

Readers and users may read, download, copy, share, print, cite, link to, and reuse published articles under the terms of CC BY 4.0.

Users must provide proper attribution and must not misrepresent the author’s work, remove required attribution, distort the scholarly meaning, or use the article in a misleading context.

Proper Attribution

When reusing or sharing an article, users should provide proper citation and attribution, including:

  • Author name(s)
  • Article title
  • Journal title: Al-Qamar
  • Volume, issue, year, and page range or article number
  • DOI or article URL where available
  • Publisher: Al-Qamar Islamic Research Institute
  • License: CC BY 4.0

Proper attribution protects academic integrity, author recognition, citation accuracy, and the reliability of the scholarly record.

Repository Policy

Authors may deposit the final published version of their article in institutional repositories, subject repositories, university websites, personal academic websites, academic profiles, library databases, CVs, and portfolios.

Repository records should include accurate metadata and a link to the official version of record on the Al-Qamar website.

Version of Record

The official version of record is the final published article available on the Al-Qamar website, including final metadata, issue information, page range or article number, DOI or article URL, license information, and final article file.

Authors and readers are encouraged to link to the official version of record whenever the article is shared elsewhere.

Third-Party Material

The CC BY 4.0 license applies to the author’s published article. Third-party material included in an article may be subject to separate copyright terms where indicated.

Third-party material may include images, tables, figures, maps, manuscript photographs, archival documents, copyrighted translations, long quotations, reproduced textual material, or any material not created by the author.

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for third-party material where permission is required. Any separate copyright or permission conditions should be clearly identified in the article.

Translations and Adaptations

Articles published under CC BY 4.0 may be translated, adapted, or reused, provided that proper attribution is given and the reuse does not misrepresent the original work.

Where a translation or adaptation is made, users should indicate that the work has been translated or adapted from the original publication.

Commercial and Non-Commercial Reuse

The CC BY 4.0 license allows both commercial and non-commercial reuse under its stated terms, provided proper attribution is given. Al-Qamar does not add non-commercial or no-derivatives restrictions to articles published under CC BY 4.0 unless a specific exception is clearly stated.

Metadata and Discoverability

Al-Qamar supports accurate metadata for article discovery, citation, indexing, and archiving. Article metadata should include title, author names, affiliations, abstract, keywords, issue details, page range or article number, DOI or article URL, license information, and publisher information.

Accurate metadata supports long-term access, citation tracking, indexing, archiving, and international scholarly visibility.