Ar Risalah: Islamic Communication Journal (Jurnal Ar Risalah) firmly adopts an Open Access model for all its published content. This means that all scholarly articles published in Jurnal Ar Risalah are freely and immediately available for anyone to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to their full texts. There are no financial, legal, or technical barriers restricting access, other than those associated with internet availability. We believe that unrestricted access to research findings will enrich scholarly discourse, foster collaboration among researchers, and significantly enhance the visibility and impact of every published work, particularly within the context of Islamic communication.
Jurnal Ar Risalah's commitment to open access fully aligns with the definition of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). The BOAI emphasizes the right of users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of any articles. This also includes the ability to crawl them for indexing, pass data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, is to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited. Therefore, Jurnal Ar Risalah does not charge subscription fees or pay-per-view fees to readers.
Jurnal Ar Risalah's open access model is supported by the fact that authors retain copyright over their work, while articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This license permits maximum reuse and distribution, provided that proper attribution is given to the original authors. This open access statement reaffirms Jurnal Ar Risalah's dedication to facilitating the fair and efficient dissemination of knowledge, empowering the global scholarly community, and ensuring that research in the field of Islamic communication can be widely accessed and utilized for the advancement of knowledge and a better understanding of communication's role within an Islamic context.
