Pamukkale University Journal of Divinity Faculty began publishing all academic articles under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license starting in 2026.

The journal is open access, and all of its content is made available free of charge to readers or the institutions to which they belong. Readers may read, download, copy, search, and link to the full text of journal articles without permission from the publisher or author, provided it is not for commercial purposes. This is consistent with the BOAI definition of open access. Pamukkale University has signed the Budapest Open Access Initiative. See http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/list_signatures/

By submitting their work to the journal under the CC BY-NC license, authors are deemed to have accepted the following terms:
1. The copyright of the published article belongs to the author.
2. Authors grant this Journal the right to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher.
3. Authors grant any third party the right to freely use the article, provided that the original authors and citation details are properly attributed.
4. Nothing in this license shall infringe upon or limit an author’s right to protect the integrity and ownership of their work.
5. All commercial rights related to the article belong to the authors.

Repository Policy

You can access our magazine's archive via this link. The Journal allows authors to deposit versions of their work in an institutional or other repository.

1. The Publisher allows authors the use of the final published version of an article (publisher pdf) for self-archiving (author's personal website) and/or archiving in an institutional repository after publication.
2. Authors may self-archive their articles in public and/or commercial subject-based repositories. There is no embargo period but the published source must be acknowledged and a link to the journal home page or articles' DOI must be set.
3. Authors may download print of the article as a PDF document. Authors may send copies of the article to colleagues without embargo.
4. The publisher allow all versions of papers (Submitted version,
Accepted version, Published version) to be deposited in an institutional or other repository of the author’s choice without embargo.

Published Version (Version of Record)
This pathway includes Open Access publishing

Embargo: No Embargo
License CC BY-NC 4.0
Copyright: Owner Authors (Authors retain copyright, without restrictions)
Deposit: LOCKSS, Named Repository (Crossref), Journal Website, Institutional repository, Author's personal website, Public and/or commercial subject-based repositories.

Accepted Version (Author Accepted Manuscript)
Embargo: No
Deposit: LOCKSS, Named Repository (Crossref), Journal Website, Institutional repository, Author's personal website, Public and/or commercial subject-based repositories.

Submitted Version
Embargo: No
Deposit: LOCKSS, Named Repository (Crossref), Journal Website, Institutional repository, Author's personal website, Public and/or commercial subject-based repositories.