Open Access Policy

The Arab Media Renewal Journal (AMRJ) is a fully open-access journal. All published articles are freely and permanently available to readers worldwide, without requiring a subscription, registration, or payment to access content.

License

All articles published in AMRJ are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC 4.0). Under this license, anyone may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, or use them for any other lawful, non-commercial purpose, provided that proper attribution is given to the original author(s) and the source.

Copyright

Authors retain full copyright of their published work. By submitting a manuscript to AMRJ, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive license to publish the article under the CC-BY-NC 4.0 terms. Authors are free to post accepted manuscripts on personal websites, institutional repositories, or preprint servers at any time, with appropriate citation and a link to the published version on the journal's website.

Self-Archiving Policy

AMRJ permits and encourages authors to self-archive their work as follows: pre-print versions (before peer review) may be deposited in any repository at any time; post-print versions (accepted manuscript after peer review) may be deposited in institutional or subject repositories immediately upon acceptance; and the published version of record (with DOI and journal formatting) may be shared on non-commercial platforms with full attribution.

Rationale

AMRJ's open-access policy is grounded in the conviction that unrestricted access to scholarly knowledge accelerates discovery, fosters interdisciplinary collaboration, and serves the public interest. This policy aligns with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), the Berlin Declaration on Open Access, and the requirements of major indexing bodies including Scopus and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

Immediate Open Access

There is no embargo period. All articles are made open access immediately upon publication.