Copyright and Licensing Policy

Pedagonal: Jurnal Ilmiah Pendidikan operates as a fully Open Access journal. To ensure the proper management, dissemination, and protection of the published works, the journal has established the following copyright and licensing terms:

1. Copyright Retention Unlike traditional publishing models, authors who publish with Pedagonal retain the copyright to their work without restrictions. By submitting a manuscript and upon acceptance, authors grant Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan Unit E-Journal Universitas Pakuan the right of first publication.

2. Licensing and Open Access All articles published in Pedagonal are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Under this license, the public (including the original authors) is legally permitted to:

  • Share: Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.

  • Adapt: Remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

These freedoms are granted under the following conditions:

  • Attribution: Proper credit must be given to the original authors, a link to the license must be provided, and Pedagonal must be explicitly acknowledged as the original venue of publication.

  • ShareAlike: If users remix, transform, or build upon the material, they must distribute their new contributions under the exact same license (CC BY-SA 4.0) as the original.

3. Author Rights and Self-Archiving Because authors retain full copyright, they possess unrestricted rights to their material, including but not limited to:

  • The right to use the substance of the article in their own future works, including lectures, books, and theses.

  • All proprietary rights other than copyright, such as patent and trademark rights.

  • The right to self-archive and distribute any version of their work (preprint, accepted manuscript, or the final published PDF layout) in institutional repositories, disciplinary archives, academic networks (e.g., ResearchGate), or personal websites at any time without requiring permission from the publisher, provided Pedagonal is cited as the original publisher.