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Mesned Journal of Theological Studies does not ask the authors of the articles to transfer their copyrights. The authors (or their employers) retain the copyright in the article. All we ask of the authors is to accept the publication under the CC BY-NC license. All articles published by the Mesned Journal of Theological Studies (regardless of who funded the research) are published as open-access and their reuse is permitted by the CC BY-NC open-access license terms. 

The authors own the copyright of their work published in the Journal of Mesned Theological Studies, and their work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). The CC BY-NC 4.0 license permits the work to be shared, copied, reproduced in any size and format other than for commercial use, and adapted, including re-editing, transforming, and building upon the original work, with proper attribution.

While the authors upload their works to the online system of our journal, they read the Copyright Agreement stated below and upload a wet-signed copy to the journal system.

• 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 have taken all kinds of 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 persons.

• Authors authorize this Journal to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher.

• Authors grant any third party the right to freely use the article 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.

Open-Access License of Mesned Journal of Theological Studies:

License: CC BY-NC

Embedded Licenses: Yes. Mesned Journal of Theological Studies embeds licensing information in its articles.

Copyright: Authors own copyright and full publication rights without restriction.

Open Access Start Date: 2019

Release Type: Open-Access

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Open Citations: Mesned Journal of Theological Studies has chosen to open citation data through the Initiative for Open Citations I4OC.

Open-Access is when publications are freely available to anyone online with few restrictions on reuse. The unrestricted dissemination of research is especially important to authors, readers and funders. In this context;

• While Mesned Journal of Theological Studies continued to publish under the CC-BY-NC ND license between 2019-2022, by the decision of the editorial board, it started to publish all academic articles under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license as of 2022.

• Mesned Journal of Theological Studies believes that for open-access to work effectively, user rights and copyright ownership must be clear through licensing.

• Mesned Journal of Theological Studies has signed the Budapest Open Access Declaration.

• We publish all our articles under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0). These license articles allow the author and any non-commercial organization to reuse them for non-commercial use, subject to the CC-BY-NC license. However, for commercial users or commercial use, permission must be obtained from the Journal of Theological Studies.

• The articles indicate the CC BY-NC license. The full texts of all the articles published in the Journal of Theological Studies in Mesned can be accessed through instant open-access viewing at https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/mesned.

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• Adapt: ​​Mix, transfer and build on existing work.

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