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UMDE Journal of Religious Inquiries has signed the Budapest Open Access Declaration.
http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/list_signatures/

The Publisher believes that for Open Access to work effectively, user rights, through licensing, and copyright ownership need to be clear. 

Articles published in the UMDE Journal of Religious Inquiries are published as open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. UMDE Journal of Religious Inquiries believes that for open access to work effectively, user rights and copyright ownership must be explicit through licensing.

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