Open Acces Policy

This Muttaqien: Indonesian Journal of Multiciplinary Islamic Studies provides immediate access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

This is an open-access journal, meaning all content is freely available to users and institutions without charge. Users can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to full-text articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or author. This is by the Budapest Open Access Initiative.

Budapest Open Access Initiative

An old tradition and new technology have converged to make an unprecedented public good possible. The ancient tradition is the willingness of scientists and scholars to publish the fruits of their research in scholarly journals without payment for the sake of inquiry and knowledge. The new technology is the internet. The public good they make possible is the worldwide electronic distribution of the peer-reviewed journal literature and unrestricted access to it by all scientists, scholars, teachers, students, and other curious minds. Removing access barriers to this literature will accelerate research, enrich education, share the learning of the rich with the poor and the poor with the rich, make this literature as functional as it can be, and lay the foundation for uniting humanity in an everyday intellectual conversation and quest for knowledge.

This free and unrestricted online availability, which we will call open access, has been limited to small portions of the journal literature. However, despite these limited collections, many initiatives have shown that open access is economically feasible. It gives readers the extraordinary power to find and use relevant literature. It provides authors and their works with vast and measurable new visibility, readership, and impact. To secure these benefits for all, we call on all interested institutions and individuals to help open up access to the rest of this literature and remove the barriers, especially the price barriers, that stand in the way. The more people join the effort to advance this cause, the sooner we will enjoy the benefits of open access.

The literature that should be freely accessible online is what scholars give to the world without expectation of payment. Primarily, this category encompasses their peer-reviewed journal articles. Still, it also includes any unreviewed preprints they might wish to put online for comment or to alert colleagues to significant research findings. Many degrees and kinds of wider and easier access to this literature exist. 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 their work's integrity and the right to be appropriately acknowledged and cited.

While the peer-reviewed journal literature should be accessible online without cost to readers, it is not costless to produce. However, experiments show that the overall costs of providing open access to this literature are far lower than traditional forms of dissemination. With such an opportunity to save money and simultaneously expand the scope of dissemination, there is today a strong incentive for professional associations, universities, libraries, foundations, and others to embrace open access to advance their missions. Achieving open access will require new cost recovery models and financing mechanisms. Still, the significantly lower overall cost of dissemination is a reason to be confident that the goal is attainable and not merely preferable or utopian.

To achieve open access to scholarly journal literature, we recommend two complementary strategies. 

I.  Self-Archiving: First, scholars need the tools and assistance to deposit their refereed journal articles in open electronic archives, a practice commonly called self-archiving. When these archives conform to standards created by the Open Archives Initiative, search engines, and other tools can treat the separate archives as one. Users then need not know which archives exist or where they are located to find and use their contents.

II. Open-access Journals: Second, scholars need the means to launch a new generation of journals committed to open access and help existing journals that elect to transition to open-access. Because journal articles should be disseminated as widely as possible, these new journals will no longer invoke copyright to restrict access to and use of their published material. Instead, they will use copyright and other tools to ensure permanent open access to all published articles. Because price is a barrier to access, these new journals will not charge subscription or access fees and will turn to other methods for covering their expenses. There are many alternative sources of funds for this purpose, including the foundations and governments that fund research, the universities, and laboratories that employ researchers, endowments set up by discipline or institution, friends of the cause of open access, profits from the sale of add-ons to the primary texts, funds freed up by the demise or cancellation of journals charging traditional subscription or access fees, or even contributions from the researchers themselves. There is no need to favor one of these solutions over the others for all disciplines or nations, and no need to stop looking for other, creative alternatives.