Posting Article Policy

Understand The Masterpiece: Journal of Islamic Studies and Social Sciences (MJISSS) article sharing and posting policies for each stage of the article life cycle.


Prior to submission to Masterpiece
Authors may post their article anywhere at any time, including on preprint servers such as arXiv.org. This does not count as a prior publication.

Upon submission to Masterpiece
Authors may share or post their submitted version of the article (also known as the preprint) in the following ways:
  1. On the authors personal website or their employers website
  2. On institutional or funder websites if required
  3. In the authors own classroom use
  4. On Scholarly Collaboration Networks (SCNs) that are signatories to the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers Sharing Principles (https://www.stm-assoc.org/stm-solutions/)
The following text should be included on the first page of the submitted article when it first is posted in any of the above outlets: This work has been submitted to the Masterpiece: Journal of Islamic Studies and Social Sciences (https://journal.minhajpustaka.id/index.php/masterpiece/) for possible publication".

Upon acceptance to Masterpiece
If an author previously posted their submitted version of the article in any of the following locations, he or she will need to replace the submitted version with the accepted version of Masterpiece. No other changes may be made to the accepted article.
  1. Authors personal website
  2. Authors employers website
  3. arXiv.org
  4. Funders repository
  5. Social-networking sites such as ResearchGate and Academia.edu

Authors are advised to use the final PDF version published on the Journals website for self-archiving purposes. However, its not an obligation and authors are free to use the version they prefere; pre-print, post-print or publishers PDF version.

There is no embargo on the self-archiving of articles. Authors are allowed deposition of articles on repositories, personal websites and social-networking sites immediately after publication on the journal website. Accepted manuscripts can be also self-archived by authors.

Final published article

  1. When the article is published, the posted version should be updated with a full citation to the original of  Masterpiece, including DOI. He or she will need to replace the accepted version with the published article version of  Masterpiece.
  2. The article will be followed statements on the copyright notice at https://journal.minhajpustaka.id/index.php/masterpiece/CopyrightNotice