Copyright and Open Access

Journal of Divinity Faculty of Kastamonu University will not ask the authors of their articles to transfer their copyrights to us as of February 2023. Journal of Divinity Faculty of Kastamonu University has not asked authors of journal articles to assign us their copyright. Authors (or their employers) retain their copyright in the article. All we require from authors is to accept the publication under the CC BY-NC license. All articles published by Journal of Divinity Faculty of Kastamonu University are published by as open access (irrespective of who funded the research), and reuse is permitted in accordance with the terms of the CC BY-NC open-access licence.

The authors own the copyright of their work published in Journal of Divinity Faculty of Kastamonu University and their work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial International (CC BY-NC 4.0). CC BY-NC license allows the work to be shared, copied, and reproduced in any size and format, except for commercial use. It also allows it to be rearranged, transformed, and adapted, including building upon the original work, with proper reference to it.
When uploading their manuscript to the online system of our journal, the authors read The Copyright Agreement stated below and upload a wet-signed copy.
Writer(s);
• The submitted article is the original work of the author(s), and they do not plagiarize,
• All authors have participated in this study individually, and they take all responsibility for this study.
• All authors have seen and approved the final version of the submitted article.
• The article has not been published elsewhere or submitted for Publication.
• They accept and undertake that the text, figures, and documents in the article do not violate the copyrights of other parties.
• The copyright of the published article belongs to its author under CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
• The authors grant the right to freely use the article to any third party as long as the original authors and citation details are identified
• Nothing in this license impairs or restricts an author's right to preserve the integrity and ownership of their work
• All commercial rights related to the article belong to the authors.

License Terms:
Open Access Licences at Journal of Divinity Faculty of Kastamonu University: CC BY-NC
Licensing: CC BY-NC
Embedded licenses: Yes. This jounal embeds licensing information in its articles.
Copyright: Authors retain the copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions.
Open Access Start Date: 2017 (From the First Issue) 
Journal of Divinity Faculty of Kastamonu University (e-ISSN 2717-901X) is Open Access it under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). This is an open-access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access. Journal of Divinity Faculty of Kastamonu University signed the Budapest Open Access Initiative Statement.

We publish all articles under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0). CC BY-NC articles allow the author, and any non-commercial bodies, to reuse the material for non-commercial uses in any other way they choose, subject to being in accordance with the CC-BY-NC licence, without acquiring permission from Journal of Divinity Faculty of Kastamonu University. Commercial users or commercial use will require permission from the Journal of Divinity Faculty of Kastamonu University for any reuse. CC BY-NC articles can be identified at the article. The full text of every article published in Journal of Divinity Faculty of Kastamonu University is immediately accessible on https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/kuifd through open-access viewing, for everyone.

Under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license you can freely:
1) Share: Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
2) Adapt: Remix, transform, and build upon the material
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2) NonCommercial: You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
No additional restrictions: You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits


Date Created: 23 Şubat 2022

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                   Journal of Divinity Faculty of Kastamonu University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY NC).