Copyright & Licensing

AL-AWAN is committed to protecting the intellectual rights of its authors while promoting the wide dissemination of scholarly knowledge. All authors who publish in AL-AWAN retain full copyright of their work without any restrictions.

By submitting and publishing their articles in AL-AWAN, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive license to publish, reproduce, distribute, and archive their work in both print and electronic formats. This license allows the journal to make the published content available through its website, databases, and other academic platforms.

Under this policy, authors are free to:

  • Retain complete ownership of their intellectual property

  • Reuse their published work in future books, articles, or teaching materials

  • Share the final published version in institutional or subject repositories

  • Distribute their work on personal or professional websites

All articles published in AL-AWAN are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This license permits others to copy, share, adapt, and reuse the content for lawful purposes, provided that proper credit is given to the original author(s) and the journal.

Any third-party use of published material must comply with the terms of this license and include appropriate citation and acknowledgment.

This policy ensures academic freedom, safeguards authors’ rights, and supports open access principles by encouraging the responsible and ethical sharing of research at national and international levels.