Licensing terms

Scope and Application

The standard CC BY-SA 4.0 licence governs the reuse of published JOVISHE article content for which the author or another identified rights holder has authority to grant these permissions. It supports unrestricted access to research in Islamic economics, Islamic finance, ethical business, the digital economy, and sustainable development, while preserving the scholarly obligation to cite and accurately represent sources.

Readers may access articles without subscription or reader-side payment. The licence concerns public reuse of published content; it does not replace the journal’s requirements for editorial assessment, responsible research conduct, or any separately disclosed charges to authors.

Copyright and First-Publication Rights

Authors retain copyright in their original scholarly articles and grant JOVISHE a non-exclusive right of first publication. The journal thereby receives permission to publish the accepted work first and to distribute the published version under CC BY-SA 4.0. The public licence does not make the publisher the owner of the article copyright.

Authors may enter into additional non-exclusive arrangements for lawful distribution of the published work, including inclusion in books or scholarly collections, provided those arrangements respect the existing Creative Commons permissions and acknowledge the initial publication in JOVISHE.

Permissions Granted to Readers and Reusers

Once material has been lawfully made available under CC BY-SA 4.0, users may exercise the following permissions without seeking case-by-case authorisation from the authors or journal, provided that the licence conditions are observed:

These permissions are broad but not unlimited: they remain subject to correct attribution, the ShareAlike requirement for shared adaptations, restrictions on additional legal or technological barriers, and any separate rights not covered by the licence.

Attribution, ShareAlike, and Other Conditions

The permissions granted under CC BY-SA 4.0 are conditional upon compliance with the following requirements. Users are responsible for determining whether the contemplated activity involves redistribution, an adaptation, or material outside the scope of the licence.

Scholarly Reuse, Translation, and Adaptation

Researchers, educators, libraries, policymakers, and other users may cite, reproduce, or reuse appropriately licensed content in accordance with CC BY-SA 4.0. For example, a translated article, an adapted figure, or a modified teaching resource may be shared with proper acknowledgement and any ShareAlike obligations that apply to the adapted material.

A translation or transformation created by a third party should clearly state that it is an adaptation, identify the original article, and indicate the modifications. Such a version must not be presented as the authoritative JOVISHE version of record or as endorsed by the journal unless the journal has expressly confirmed that status.

The ShareAlike condition does not ordinarily impose a licence on an entire collection merely because an unchanged CC BY-SA article is included in it. Whether a particular derivative or compilation requires ShareAlike treatment depends on the nature of the reuse and the legal status of the adapted contributions.

Author Self-Archiving and Repositories

JOVISHE permits authors to share their scholarly work through institutional repositories, subject repositories, academic websites, and other legitimate non-exclusive distribution channels. Authors may disseminate the published version of record under the applicable CC BY-SA 4.0 licence, with no journal-imposed post-publication embargo.

Repository entries should identify the article title, authors, journal of first publication, publication details, DOI or permanent article URL where available, and the applicable Creative Commons licence. Preprints and accepted manuscripts may also be deposited or shared, provided their versions are clearly distinguished from the final published article and any third-party rights and confidentiality obligations are respected.

Article Versions and Licence Identification

The final published version should display the author copyright notice and a clear statement of the applicable licence on its article webpage and within the full text, including PDF and HTML formats where provided. The licence should link directly to https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/.

Preprints, accepted manuscripts, supplementary files, images, and datasets may have different rights statements or restrictions. Where these materials are released separately, their applicable licences should be identified expressly rather than assumed from the main article licence. Consistent licence metadata should be recorded in OJS and transmitted to relevant metadata services where supported.

Historical articles should not have their copyright holder or licence retrospectively changed without an appropriate legal basis and clear public documentation.

Third-Party Content and Legal Limitations

Figures, maps, photographs, tables, instruments, datasets, excerpts, and other material supplied by third parties may be reproduced under a separate permission, a statutory exception, or an alternative licence. Such material is not automatically covered by the article’s CC BY-SA 4.0 licence merely because it appears in a JOVISHE publication.

Authors should obtain necessary permissions before publication and mark any material that is excluded from the article-level licence. Users wishing to reuse an excluded component must obtain permission from its rights holder unless an independent legal basis authorises the proposed use.

Creative Commons licences provide no warranties and do not override rights arising from participant privacy, confidential information, personal data, publicity, or applicable moral rights. These limitations are particularly important for research involving interviews, community data, sensitive business information, and visual materials.

Preprints and Prior Online Dissemination

JOVISHE supports the responsible circulation of preprints and other manuscript versions before or during formal submission where this is consistent with the journal’s originality and publication-ethics policies. A publicly available preprint should be declared during submission and should not be misrepresented as a separately peer-reviewed journal article.

Following publication, authors are encouraged to connect previously shared manuscript versions to the final JOVISHE article through its DOI or permanent URL. If a preprint carries its own licence, that licence should be identified separately; publication of a new version under CC BY-SA 4.0 does not automatically rewrite the earlier version’s rights statement.

Post-Publication Changes and Licence Continuity

A Creative Commons licence granted validly to the public generally remains effective for users who comply with its terms. The journal or an author may not simply revoke previously granted CC BY-SA 4.0 permissions from compliant reusers merely because a policy is subsequently revised.

Corrections, expressions of concern, and retractions concern the reliability and status of published research. They do not silently alter the original publication history or invalidate the public attribution record. JOVISHE may publish linked notices, identify superseded versions, and take proportionate action when rights violations or serious legal concerns are discovered, subject to applicable law and the journal’s Correction and Retraction Policy.

Suggested Attribution and Licence Notice

When redistributing or adapting a JOVISHE article, reusers should provide sufficient information for the source and licence to be identified. The following language is illustrative and should be completed with the details of the relevant published article:

The examples are not mandatory citation styles and do not replace the licence’s specific attribution requirements. A normal scholarly citation and a legally sufficient Creative Commons attribution serve related but different functions.

Rights Enquiries and Related Policies

Questions about article licensing, rights clearance, repository deposits, reuse of specific materials, or reported inconsistencies in a published licence statement may be submitted to the JOVISHE Editorial Office. Editorial requests involving suspected rights infringements or misleading reuse will be considered under the relevant ethical and post-publication policies.

JOVISHE’s licensing approach is informed by the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing and the official Creative Commons licence. In any case of inconsistency between a summary and the legal text of the licence, the latter governs the rights and obligations of users.