OPEN ACCESS POLICY

Principles of Universal Open Access and Knowledge Dissemination

SUKUK: International Journal of Banking, Finance, Management and Business is committed to real-time, unrestricted Open Access to foster global academic discourse, scientific advancement, and the equitable sharing of knowledge. Grounded in the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a wider global exchange of ideas, the journal ensures that all published articles are immediately accessible upon online publication without registration, subscription paywalls, or embargo periods. By removing barriers for researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and institutions worldwide—particularly across Islamic banking, financial systems, management, and economics—the journal enables maximum reach, citation, and societal impact for all published contributions.

Open Access Model

Operating under this Open Access Model, the journal guarantees complete financial equity for both authors and global research communities. SUKUK Journal enforces a strict zero-fee publication policy, meaning authors are never subjected to mandatory Article Processing Charges (APCs), submission fees, page charges, formatting costs, or hidden editorial processing fees. Scholar eligibility to publish is determined strictly and exclusively by academic merit, research quality, and scientific integrity, ensuring that financial constraints or lack of institutional grant funding never impede the dissemination of high-quality scholarship.

Under this comprehensive Open Access framework, all accepted and published manuscripts are distributed under terms that grant immediate, unrestricted global access. Readers, academic libraries, educational organizations, and the general public possess full permission to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to the full text of articles, crawl them for indexing, or use them for any other lawful educational and research purpose without seeking prior permission from the publisher or author. Contributing authors retain the copyright to their published works while granting the journal the right of first publication, ensuring that original research remains permanently accessible, freely re-usable, and transparently archived across global digital networks.