Open Access Statement

An-Nuha: Journal of Social & Humanities is committed to providing immediate open access to its content, believing that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Definition of Open Access:

Open access means free and unrestricted availability on the public internet, permitting any user 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. (This definition is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative - BOAI definition).  

An-Nuha's Open Access Policy:

  • All articles published in An-Nuha: Journal of Social & Humanities are freely and openly accessible to anyone worldwide immediately upon publication.
  • Users are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles without prior permission from the publisher or the author.
  • This journal uses the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which allows others to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license on the same terms.  

Benefits of Open Access:

  • Greater Visibility and Impact: Open access articles are more easily discovered and accessed by a wider audience, thereby increasing research visibility and impact.
  • Accelerated Knowledge Dissemination: Open access accelerates the dissemination of scientific knowledge and facilitates research collaboration.
  • Democratization of Information Access: Open access removes financial barriers to accessing scientific information, thus providing equal opportunities for everyone to learn and benefit from the latest research.
  • Increased Citations: Research shows that open access articles tend to be cited more often than articles available only through subscriptions.

Commitment to Sustainable Open Access:

An-Nuha: Journal of Social & Humanities is committed to maintaining this open access policy sustainably and contributing to the global open access movement.

With this open access statement, An-Nuha: Journal of Social & Humanities hopes to advance knowledge in the fields of social sciences and humanities, as well as provide maximum benefits to the scientific community and the wider public.