Open Access Policy

Arathia: Journal of Islamic Elementary Education and Culture Based Education provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. All articles published in Arathia: Journal of Islamic Elementary Education and Culture Based Education are open access and freely accessible, aligned with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition:

"By 'open access' to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited."
Benefits of open access for authors include:

  • Free access for all users worldwide
  • Authors retain copyright to their work
  • Increased visibility and readership
  • Rapid publication
  • No spatial constraints
All articles published in this journal are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).