Open Access Policy

Open Access (OA) articles in Al-Shodhana journal are published under Creative Commons licenses. These provide an industry-standard framework to support the re-use of OA material.

Articles published under the subscription publishing model in Al-ShodhanaJournalhave different terms of use. Read on to learn more about how others can make use of your work and your rights as an author.

Creative Commons Licenses

Open Access articles in Al-Shodhana journal are published under Creative Commons licenses.

Al-Shodhanajournal articles are published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND (Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 International license) or CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license) license.

• CC BY-NC-ND: The article can be shared for non-commercial purposes as long as the authors are credited. Permission is needed for commercial re-use or sharing adapted and derivative versions.

You may also wish to find out about license variations that are available to meet funder and institutional OA license requirements.

All Creative Commons licenses require the license to be referenced when sharing the content in whole or in part.