Official Journal of the College of Art
Open Access Statement

Al-Noor Journal for Digital Media Studies (NJDMS) is an open-access journal, meaning that all published articles are freely and permanently available online to all users immediately upon publication, without any financial, legal, or technical barriers.

All articles published in NJDMS are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Under this license, authors retain full copyright of their published work, while granting NJDMS the right of first publication. The CC BY 4.0 license permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction, adaptation, translation, and commercial use of the articles in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited and a link to the license is provided.

The publisher and editorial board of NJDMS are committed to maintaining high publication ethics and are willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when necessary. All submitted manuscripts are screened for originality using iThenticate plagiarism detection software and are subjected to a rigorous peer-review process conducted by qualified international reviewers.

Benefits of open access for authors include:

1. Free and immediate access for readers worldwide
2. Authors retain copyright without restrictions
3. Increased visibility and readership
4. Rapid publication
5. No spatial or distribution constraints