Copyright, Rights, and Permissions

As a condition of publication in the Journal of Interreligious Studies (JIRS) all authors agree to the following terms of licensing/copyright ownership:

• First publication rights to original work accepted for publication is granted to JIRS, but copyright for all work published in the JIRS is retained by the author(s).
• Works published in JIRS will be distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License (CC-BY-NC International 4.0). By granting a CC-BY-NC license in their work, authors retain copyright ownership of the work, but they give explicit permission for others to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy the work, as long as the original source and author(s) are properly cited (i.e. a complete bibliographic citation and link to the JIRS website) and the use is for noncommercial purposes. No permission is required from the author(s) or the publishers for such use.
• Authors may enter into separate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the published version of the work, with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in JIRS.
• Authors are permitted to post their work online in institutional/disciplinary repositories or on their own websites. Pre-print versions posted online should include a citation and link to the final published version in JIRS as soon as the issue is available; post-print versions (including the final publisher's PDF) should include a citation and link to the JIRS's website.
• It will be the responsibility of the authors to secure all necessary copyright permissions for the use of third-party materials in their manuscript. Authors will be required to provide written evidence of this permission upon acceptance of their manuscript

Preservation and Archiving

The JIRS recognizes the importance of preserving scholarly content for the long term. Our Preservation and Archiving Policy ensures that all published articles remain accessible, discoverable, and protected against data loss. All content published in the JIRS is indexed and preserved in the following systems:

• ATLA Religion Database
• PKP Preservation Network
• Our own website