Open Access Policy

Antmind Review: Journal of Sharia and Legal Ethics, published by Antmind Youth Empower Foundation, is an open-access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal committed to the free and unrestricted dissemination of academic knowledge.

The journal believes that immediate access to scholarly research supports academic collaboration, intellectual development, and the wider exchange of knowledge across institutions, countries, and disciplines.

All published scholarly articles are made freely accessible to readers worldwide without subscription fees, access charges, registration requirements, or embargo periods.

This policy is consistent with internationally recognized open-access principles and the standards of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

Immediate and Free Access

Antmind Review provides immediate open access to the full text of its published articles through its official journal website.

Readers are permitted to read, download, copy, print, search, link to, share, and distribute published scholarly content in accordance with the applicable open-access license.

No payment or user registration is required to access published articles.

The journal does not impose subscription restrictions, delayed-access arrangements, or pay-per-view charges.

The journal is committed to ensuring that published research remains accessible to researchers, students, legal practitioners, policymakers, and members of the wider academic community.

Copyright and Open Access Licensing

Authors retain copyright in their scholarly works and grant Antmind Review a non-exclusive right of first publication.

All published scholarly articles are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Under this license, users are permitted to:

Copy and redistribute published articles in any medium or format.
Share articles through academic repositories, educational platforms, and scholarly networks.
Translate, adapt, and build upon published research.
Reuse published materials for educational, research, and commercial purposes.

These permissions are subject to appropriate attribution to the original authors, identification of the source, provision of a link to the license, and indication of any changes made.

Users must not imply that the original authors or publisher endorse their adaptations or subsequent uses.

Separately identified third-party materials may be subject to different copyright or licensing conditions.

Author Rights and Self-Archiving

Antmind Review supports authors' rights to disseminate their research widely.

Authors may deposit submitted manuscripts, accepted manuscripts, and final published versions in institutional repositories, subject repositories, personal academic websites, and other appropriate scholarly platforms.

The journal does not impose an embargo on the self-archiving of these manuscript versions.

Authors are encouraged to provide the original article citation and DOI when sharing the published version.

Self-archiving practices are governed by the journal's Repository and Self-Archiving Policy and Copyright and Licensing Policy.

Publication Fees and Editorial Independence

Open access for readers does not necessarily mean that all publication services are provided without cost to authors.

Antmind Review maintains a publicly available Author Fees Policy describing applicable Article Processing Charges (APCs), payment arrangements, and other relevant financial conditions.

All author charges must be disclosed transparently before manuscript submission.

Payment of publication charges does not influence peer-review assessments, manuscript acceptance, editorial decisions, or publication priority.

All manuscripts are evaluated according to their scholarly merit, originality, methodological quality, relevance, and compliance with publication ethics.

Accessibility and Long-Term Availability

Antmind Review is committed to maintaining accessible online publication records, accurate article metadata, and reliable access to published scholarly content.

Published articles are assigned Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to support persistent identification and scholarly citation.

The journal maintains online archives of published issues and supports appropriate digital preservation measures to safeguard the scholarly record.

Long-term preservation arrangements are governed by the journal's Digital Preservation and Archiving Policy.

Open Access Commitment

Antmind Review supports the principle that scholarly knowledge should be accessible and reusable without unnecessary financial, legal, or technical barriers.

The journal is committed to maintaining transparent licensing information and ensuring that readers understand their rights when accessing and reusing published content.

Any material changes to the journal's open-access arrangements will be disclosed publicly.