About This Journal
Host Institution
JAIS is an academic journal owned and published by the American University of Iraq-Baghdad (AUIB), a private, not-for-profit institution established in February 2021. AUIB is committed to combining Iraq's intellectual heritage, including the traditions of the House of Wisdom, with a contemporary American-style higher education model. The university provides a rigorous academic environment that is internationally engaged, research-oriented, and responsive to the development needs of Iraq and the wider region.
Open Access Policy
JAIS is published under the Diamond Open Access model. All articles are freely available online immediately upon publication, with no subscription fees for readers and no article processing charges (APCs) or submission fees for authors. There are no financial barriers to either reading or publishing in JAIS. All articles are published Open Access and made available under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. Under this license, readers and re-users may freely read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, and adapt or build upon the material for non-commercial purposes, provided that appropriate attribution is given to the original authors and the journal is cited as the original publisher. Any commercial use or redistribution requires separate written permission from the author(s).
Copyright
Authors publishing in JAIS retain full copyright and intellectual property rights to their work. By submitting a manuscript, authors grant the journal the right of first publication.
Digital Archiving
To ensure the long-term preservation and accessibility of published content, JAIS is archived through Portico, a trusted digital preservation service used by major research libraries and publishers worldwide. This guarantees persistent access to all articles, even in the event of platform disruption or discontinuation.
Digital Object Identifiers
Every article published in JAIS receives a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) registered through CrossRef, the standard scholarly metadata organisation. DOIs provide stable, permanent links to published articles and support discoverability across academic databases, citation managers, and search platforms.
Publication Frequency
JAIS publishes two issues per year in January and July. The inaugural issue is expected in January 2027. Accepted manuscripts are published online on a rolling basis ahead of formal issue compilation.
