Archiving and Self-Archiving Policy

The Al-Rafidain Dental Journal (RDENTJ) is an open-access journal committed to the dissemination and accessibility of scholarly research.

All articles published in RDENTJ are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), permitting unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Authors are permitted to self-archive without embargo the submitted version (preprint), accepted manuscript (post-print), and the final published version of their articles on personal websites, institutional repositories, subject-based repositories, and academic platforms. Proper citation and a link to the published article on the RDENTJ website must be provided.

Authors may also freely distribute article abstracts, citation information, and metadata with appropriate attribution to the journal.

Al-Rafidain Dental Journal is officially archived and indexed through the Iraqi Academic Scientific Journals (IASJ) platform:       https://iasj.rdd.edu.iq/journals/journal/view/308

This policy may be reviewed and updated in accordance with journal practices and publishing standards.