Open Access Policy

Indonesian Civil Law Review (ICLR)

Indonesian Civil Law Review (ICLR) is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by PT Makanja Group Publishing and is committed to providing immediate, free, and permanent access to high-quality legal scholarship.

The journal adopts a Diamond Open Access publishing model, meaning that all published articles are freely accessible to readers without subscription fees, access charges, or registration requirements, while authors are not required to pay Article Processing Charges (APCs), submission fees, or publication fees.

The official website of Indonesian Civil Law Review (ICLR) is:

https://iclrmakanja.co.id/index.php/iclr

All published articles can be accessed freely through the journal's official website immediately upon publication.

1. Immediate Open Access

Indonesian Civil Law Review provides immediate open access to all published scholarly content.

There is no embargo period between publication and public access. Once an article is officially published, the full text is made freely and permanently available through the ICLR website.

Readers are not required to:

pay subscription fees;
purchase individual articles;
register an account;
become members of an institution; or
wait for an embargo period

in order to read or download published articles.

All published content is available through:

https://iclrmakanja.co.id/index.php/iclr

2. Diamond Open Access Model

Indonesian Civil Law Review operates under a Diamond Open Access model.

Under this model:

Reader Access Fee: None
Subscription Fee: None
Submission Fee: None
Article Processing Charge (APC): None
Publication Fee: None
Embargo Period: None

Authors are not charged for submitting, reviewing, processing, editing, or publishing their manuscripts.

Readers are likewise not charged for accessing, downloading, reading, or using published articles in accordance with the applicable license.

The journal's publishing and editorial activities are supported by PT Makanja Group Publishing and other institutional resources available to the journal.

The absence of author fees or reader fees does not affect the journal's editorial independence or peer-review standards.

3. Free and Permanent Access

All articles published by ICLR are made freely and permanently accessible online.

Readers may access full-text articles through the journal's official website:

https://iclrmakanja.co.id/index.php/iclr

The journal is committed to maintaining the availability of its published scholarly record and ensuring that published articles remain accessible for scholarly, educational, professional, and research purposes.

4. Reader Rights

Subject to the applicable Creative Commons license, readers may:

access published articles without charge;
read articles online;
download full-text articles;
save electronic copies;
print articles;
share published articles;
redistribute published materials;
cite and quote published works;
use articles for teaching and educational purposes;
use articles for research and scholarly activities;
translate or adapt published materials;
link directly to published articles;
include published material in academic or professional works; and
make other lawful uses permitted under the applicable license.

All reuse must provide appropriate acknowledgment to the original author(s) and Indonesian Civil Law Review as the original source of publication.

5. Copyright and Licensing

Unless otherwise explicitly indicated, articles published by ICLR are distributed under the:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

Under CC BY 4.0, users are permitted to:

copy;
reproduce;
distribute;
share;
transmit;
translate;
adapt;
remix;
transform; and
build upon

published material for lawful purposes, including academic, educational, professional, and commercial purposes.

These rights are subject to the requirement that users:

give appropriate credit to the original author(s);
acknowledge Indonesian Civil Law Review (ICLR) as the original source of publication;
provide the title and bibliographic information of the article;
provide the DOI or permanent article URL whenever available;
identify the applicable Creative Commons license; and
clearly indicate whether changes, adaptations, or modifications have been made.

The full journal licensing provisions are governed by ICLR's Licensing Terms.

6. Copyright Retention by Authors

Authors retain copyright ownership of their published works.

By publishing an article in Indonesian Civil Law Review, authors grant ICLR and PT Makanja Group Publishing a non-exclusive right of first publication and permission to publish, distribute, archive, index, preserve, and disseminate the article.

Authors remain entitled to reuse and distribute their works in accordance with the applicable licensing conditions.

7. Author Self-Archiving Policy

Indonesian Civil Law Review supports and encourages author self-archiving.

Authors may deposit their published works in:

institutional repositories;
university repositories;
subject-based repositories;
personal academic websites;
research information systems;
academic networking platforms; and
other legitimate scholarly repositories.

Authors may archive the published Version of Record immediately after publication without an embargo period.

When depositing the published version, authors should provide proper citation to the original publication and, whenever possible, include the DOI or permanent link to the official article published on the ICLR website.

Official journal website:

https://iclrmakanja.co.id/index.php/iclr

8. No Embargo Policy

ICLR does not impose an embargo period on published articles.

The full text of an article becomes freely available to the public immediately upon formal publication.

Authors may also archive and disseminate the published Version of Record immediately after publication, subject to the journal's licensing terms.

9. No Article Processing Charges

Indonesian Civil Law Review does not charge Article Processing Charges (APCs).

Authors are not required to pay fees for:

manuscript submission;
editorial processing;
peer review;
acceptance;
publication;
DOI assignment; or
online access to their published article.

The journal's editorial decisions are therefore independent of an author's financial capacity.

Acceptance or rejection of manuscripts is based exclusively on scholarly merit, originality, relevance, methodological or doctrinal rigor, ethical compliance, and conformity with the journal's aims and scope.

10. Editorial Independence

The open-access model adopted by ICLR does not compromise editorial independence.

Editorial and publication decisions are based solely on academic considerations.

The Editor-in-Chief, editors, reviewers, publisher, sponsors, or other parties must not permit financial, commercial, personal, institutional, or political interests to improperly influence editorial decisions.

Manuscripts are evaluated in accordance with the journal's peer-review and publication ethics policies.

11. Access Through the Official Journal Website

The official source of published ICLR content is the Indonesian Civil Law Review website:

https://iclrmakanja.co.id/index.php/iclr

The website provides access to:

current issues;
previous issues and archives;
individual article pages;
article metadata;
full-text articles;
author information;
editorial information;
journal policies;
submission guidelines; and
other information related to journal management and scholarly publication.

The journal encourages readers to use the official website and article DOI when citing, sharing, or linking to published content.

12. Repository, Indexing, and Discovery Services

Indonesian Civil Law Review supports the dissemination and discovery of published research through:

academic search engines;
scholarly databases;
abstracting and indexing services;
institutional repositories;
metadata aggregators;
citation databases;
library discovery services; and
scholarly communication platforms.

The journal may provide article metadata and other relevant information to legitimate indexing, archiving, preservation, and discovery services.

The use of standardized metadata and persistent identifiers is encouraged to improve discoverability, interoperability, citation tracking, and long-term access.

13. Persistent Identifiers

Whenever available, ICLR assigns or displays persistent identifiers such as Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for published articles.

Readers and authors are encouraged to use an article's DOI or permanent URL when citing or sharing the publication.

The permanent article record should remain accessible through the journal website:

https://iclrmakanja.co.id/index.php/iclr

14. Digital Preservation and Long-Term Access

ICLR is committed to ensuring that published scholarly content remains accessible over the long term.

The journal seeks to maintain reliable electronic records of published articles and metadata and may cooperate with institutional or third-party digital preservation services where appropriate.

Corrections, retractions, or other post-publication actions will not ordinarily result in the disappearance of the scholarly record.

Such actions will be handled transparently in accordance with the journal's correction, retraction, withdrawal, and publication ethics policies.

15. Open Access and Scholarly Communication

The Open Access Policy of Indonesian Civil Law Review is intended to promote:

wider dissemination of legal scholarship;
greater international visibility of published research;
equitable access to scholarly knowledge;
increased opportunities for citation and scholarly reuse;
collaboration among legal academics and researchers;
communication between academics, legal practitioners, policymakers, students, and the public;
development of comparative and civil law scholarship;
responsible reuse of academic publications; and
advancement of transparent and accessible scholarly communication.

ICLR recognizes that access to scholarly knowledge should not be unnecessarily restricted by financial barriers.

16. Third-Party Materials

The journal's Creative Commons license applies to material for which the relevant rights have been secured.

Photographs, maps, figures, tables, illustrations, datasets, excerpts, or other third-party materials included in an article may be subject to separate copyright restrictions.

Where material is not covered by the article's Creative Commons license, this must be clearly identified.

Users wishing to reproduce such material are responsible for obtaining permission from the relevant copyright holder.

Authors are responsible for securing permission to use copyrighted third-party material before publication.

17. No Additional Legal or Technical Restrictions

ICLR does not intentionally impose legal or technological restrictions that prevent users from exercising rights granted under the applicable Creative Commons license.

Published articles should remain accessible without Digital Rights Management (DRM) restrictions that would unnecessarily prevent lawful scholarly reuse.

Users remain responsible for complying with copyright law, licensing terms, ethical standards, and proper scholarly attribution.

18. Open Access Transparency

Information concerning the journal's:

open-access model;
publication fees;
copyright;
licensing;
author rights;
reader rights;
self-archiving;
publisher;
editorial process; and
journal website

is made publicly available to support transparency in scholarly publishing.

ICLR is committed to ensuring that its Open Access Policy is consistent with its:

Licensing Terms;
Copyright Policy;
Author Guidelines;
Article Processing Charges Policy;
Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement;
Peer Review Policy; and
other relevant journal policies.

19. Official Open Access Declaration

Indonesian Civil Law Review (ICLR) is a Diamond Open Access journal. All articles are freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication without subscription fees, reader access charges, Article Processing Charges (APCs), or embargo periods. Copyright remains with the author(s). Unless otherwise stated, published articles are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

Open Access Information

Journal: Indonesian Civil Law Review (ICLR)
Publisher: PT Makanja Group Publishing
Official Website: https://iclrmakanja.co.id/index.php/iclr
Publishing Model: Diamond Open Access
Reader Access Fee: Free
Subscription Fee: None
Submission Fee: None
Article Processing Charge (APC): None
Publication Fee: None
Embargo Period: None
Copyright Holder: Author(s)
Open Access: Immediate Open Access
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Author Self-Archiving: Permitted
Version of Record Archiving: Permitted immediately after publication