Open Access Policy

Journal of Instruction and Islamic Religious Education (JIIRE) is a fully open-access journal, publishing articles that are immediately and freely accessible online upon publication. Readers and institutions can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts without seeking prior permission from the publisher or authors. Additionally, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, users are free to share, remix, transform, and build upon the content for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as appropriate credit (cite to the article or content) is given, and any modifications are clearly indicated. This open-access practice significantly increases the visibility, readership, and overall impact of your research, in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative.


Budapest Open Access Initiative

The Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) was officially declared on February 14, 2002 in Budapest, Hungary, with the aim of making peer-reviewed journal literature freely accessible to all. BOAI advocates for two complementary strategies:

  1. Self-Archiving: Encouraging researchers to deposit their refereed journal articles in open electronic archives, ensuring their work can be discovered and accessed without barriers.
  2. Open-Access Journals: Supporting the creation of journals that provide unrestricted access to scholarly works without subscription or access fees, utilizing alternative funding models to cover operational costs.

This initiative underscores the critical role of open access in accelerating research dissemination, enriching education, and bridging knowledge gaps between scholars worldwide. For more information and to read the complete declaration, visit the official BOAI website.


The BOAI declaration was endorsed by influential figures in academia and scholarly publishing, including Leslie Chan (Bioline International), Stevan Harnad (University of Southampton), and Peter Suber (Earlham College), among others. Their collective commitment highlights the global significance and continued relevance of open access initiatives.

We invite governments, universities, libraries, journal editors, publishers, foundations, learned societies, professional associations, and individual scholars to join in the collective effort of removing barriers to open access and creating a global network of freely accessible scholarly literature.