Editorial Policies

Open Access Policy
This journal 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.

Revenue Sources
Al-Mazaahib is an open-access journal published in both online and print versions. Source of income from institutional support (faculty). Source of income which is utilized in maintaining the administrative and the print cost. Also, a very non-significant part of revenue comes from the subscription.

Archiving
This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration.

Plagiarism Policy
The authors are, basically, have the responsible to submit their original works, which are free from plragiarism and academically malpracticces. Then, before the publication, the editors are responsible to double-check the articles to ensure that the articles are free from plagiarism.

Waiver Policy
All article published in Al-Mazaahib is Open Access. It implies that all readers, anywhere in the world, are allowed unrestricted access to the full text of the article immediately on publication in Al-Mazaahib. No payment is collected from the readers for accessing and using the articles.

Privacy Statement
The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  • Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  • Authors can enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
  • Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) before and during the submission process. It can lead to productive exchanges and earlier and greater citation of published work.