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Usul Journal of Islamic Studies believes that for open access to work effectively, user rights and copyright ownership through licensing must be clear.

Articles published in the Journal of Usul Islamic Studies are published as open access under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence.

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