Open Access & Copyright

Open Access Policy

The Journal of Al-Wataniya Private University (JWPU) is a fully Open Access journal. All published articles are made freely and immediately available to readers through the journal website without subscription fees, access charges, or embargo periods.

Readers may access, read, download, and share published articles in accordance with the terms of the license applied to the journal's published content.

No registration or payment is required to access the full text of published articles.

Licensing Policy

All articles published in the Journal of Al-Wataniya Private University are licensed under:

Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Under this license, readers may copy and redistribute the published material in any medium or format for non-commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given to the authors and the original source, a link to the license is provided, and the material is not modified or distributed in an adapted form.

The license applies to the scholarly content published by the journal unless specific third-party material is clearly identified as being subject to different copyright or licensing terms.

Copyright Policy

Copyright in the published version of articles is held by Al-Wataniya Private University, as indicated on the individual article page.

Published articles are made openly available under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. Reuse of published material must therefore comply with the terms of this license.

The Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license applies to scholarly articles published by the journal.

Unless otherwise stated, this license does not apply to the journal website design, journal logo, institutional logos and trademarks, administrative pages, or other non-scholarly website content. The rights to such materials are reserved by Al-Wataniya Private University.

Digital Archiving and Preservation Policy

The journal maintains published articles and journal data through the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform. Full-text articles and their persistent records are also deposited in Zenodo. In addition, Al-Wataniya Private University maintains institutional backup copies of the journal website, database, and published files to support content recovery and continuity of access in the event of technical failure or website disruption.