About the Journal

Focus and Scope

FOCUS: SHARE publishes research and concept papers pertaining to the field of Islamic economics and finance. Although SHARE accepts articles from worldwide, it mainly focuses on studies of Islamic economics and finance practices in Indonesia and its surrounding regions.

SCOPE: SHARE welcomes the contributions from related academicians and practitioners on the following topics:

• Islamic economic practices
• Islamic banking and non-banking institutions 
• Islamic microfinance and social funds, such as zakat, infaq, sadaqah, waqaf, etc
• Islamic accounting
• Islamic business ethics
• Other related topics

Peer Review Process

Articles that the editors judge to have merit will be sent anonymously to referees, and authors may be asked for changes and adjustments in light of the referees' reports. All manuscripts are subject to double-blind review and will be assessed based on their quality by the reviewers. Feedback will be given to authors promptly to complete the review process within approximately 4–8 weeks. The review process will take about three to five months. The editor evaluates the recommendation and notifies the author of the manuscript status. The manuscript may be:

• Accepted for publication as is 
• Accepted for publication with minor changes, with no re-review necessary 
• Accepted for publication after substantial revision and additional review, or 
• Rejected. 

The comments of the anonymous reviewers will be forwarded to the authors, and when the authors are ready to submit their revised manuscript, read the comments of the editors and reviewers and respond to them by telling what modifications they have made in their manuscript or why they have not made the suggested changes. Note that revisions must be completed and submitted within two weeks after the authors receive the reviewers' comments. Late manuscripts will not be published in the coming issue, yet they might be considered for the next issue.

Publication Frequency

Share: Jurnal Ekonomi dan Keuangan Islam publishes twice a year each June and December, each consecutive year. 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

Budapest Open Access Initiative

An old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an unprecedented public good. The old tradition is the willingness of scientists and scholars to publish the fruits of their research in scholarly journals without payment for the sake of inquiry and knowledge. The new technology is the internet. The public good they make possible is the world-wide electronic distribution of peer-reviewed journal literature and completely free and unrestricted access to it by all scientists, scholars, teachers, students, and other curious minds. Removing access barriers to this literature will accelerate research, enrich education, share the learning of the rich with the poor and the poor with the rich, make this literature as useful as it can be, and lay the foundation for uniting humanity in a common intellectual conversation and quest for knowledge.

For various reasons, this kind of free and unrestricted online availability, which we will call open access, has so far been limited to small portions of the journal literature. But even in these limited collections, many different initiatives have shown that open access is economically feasible, that it gives readers extraordinary power to find and make use of relevant literature, and that it gives authors and their works vast and measurable new visibility, readership, and impact. To secure these benefits for all, we call on all interested institutions and individuals to help open up access to the rest of this literature and remove the barriers, especially the price barriers, that stand in the way. The more people who join the effort to advance this cause, the sooner we will all enjoy the benefits of open access.

The literature that should be freely accessible online is that which scholars give to the world without expectation of payment. Primarily, this category encompasses their peer-reviewed journal articles, but it also includes any unreviewed preprints that they might wish to put online for comment or to alert colleagues to important research findings. There are many degrees and kinds of wider and easier access to this literature. By "open access" to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.

While peer-reviewed journal literature should be accessible online without cost to readers, it is not costless to produce. However, experiments show that the overall costs of providing open access to this literature are far lower than the costs of traditional forms of dissemination. With such an opportunity to save money and expand the scope of dissemination at the same time, there is today a strong incentive for professional associations, universities, libraries, foundations, and others to embrace open access as a means of advancing their missions. Achieving open access will require new cost recovery models and financing mechanisms, but the significantly lower overall cost of dissemination is a reason to be confident that the goal is attainable and not merely preferable or utopian.

To achieve open access to scholarly journal literature, we recommend two complementary strategies. 

1. Self-Archiving: First, scholars need the tools and assistance to deposit their refereed journal articles in open electronic archives, a practice commonly called self-archiving. When these archives conform to standards created by the Open Archives Initiative, then search engines and other tools can treat the separate archives as one. Users then need not know which archives exist or where they are located in order to find and make use of their contents.
2. Open-access Journals: Second, scholars need the means to launch a new generation of journals committed to open access and to help existing journals that elect to make the transition to open access. Because journal articles should be disseminated as widely as possible, these new journals will no longer invoke copyright to restrict access to and use of the material they publish. Instead, they will use copyright and other tools to ensure permanent open access to all the articles they publish. Because the price is a barrier to access, these new journals will not charge subscription or access fees and will turn to other methods for covering their expenses. There are many alternative sources of funds for this purpose, including the foundations and governments that fund research, the universities and laboratories that employ researchers, endowments set up by discipline or institution, friends of the cause of open access, profits from the sale of add-ons to the basic texts, funds freed up by the demise or cancellation of journals charging traditional subscription or access fees, or even contributions from the researchers themselves. There is no need to favor one of these solutions over the others for all disciplines or nations, and there is no need to stop looking for other, creative alternatives.

Open access to peer-reviewed journal literature is the goal. Self-archiving (I.) and a new generation of open-access journals (II.) are the ways to attain this goal. They are not only direct and effective means to this end, but they are also within reach of scholars themselves, immediately, and need not wait on changes brought about by markets or legislation. While we endorse the two strategies just outlined, we also encourage experimentation with further ways to make the transition from the present methods of dissemination to open access. Flexibility, experimentation, and adaptation to local circumstances are the best ways to ensure that progress in diverse settings will be rapid, secure, and long-lived.

The Open Society Institute, the foundation network founded by philanthropist George Soros, is committed to providing initial help and funding to realize this goal. It will use its resources and influence to extend and promote institutional self-archiving, launch new open-access journals, and help an open-access journal system become economically self-sustaining. While the Open Society Institute's commitment and resources are substantial, this initiative is very much in need of other organizations to lend their effort and resources.

We invite governments, universities, libraries, journal editors, publishers, foundations, learned societies, professional associations, and individual scholars who share our vision to join us in the task of removing the barriers to open access and building a future in which research and education in every part of the world are that much more free to flourish.

February 14, 2002
Budapest, Hungary

Leslie Chan: Bioline International
Darius Cuplinskas: Director, Information Program, Open Society Institute
Michael Eisen: Public Library of Science
Fred Friend: Director of Scholarly Communication, University College London
Yana Genova: Next Page Foundation
Jean-Claude Guédon: University of Montreal
Melissa Hagemann: Program Officer, Information Program, Open Society Institute
Stevan Harnad: Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Southampton, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
Rick Johnson: Director, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
Rima Kupryte: Open Society Institute
Manfredi La Manna: Electronic Society for Social Scientists 
István Rév: Open Society Institute, Open Society Archives
Monika Segbert: eIFL Project consultant 
Sidnei de Souza: Informatics Director at CRIA, Bioline International
Peter Suber: Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College & The Free Online Scholarship Newsletter
Jan Velterop: Publisher, BioMed Central

Plagiarism Screening

 Share: Jurnal Ekonomi dan Keuangan Islam [SHARE] employs Turnitin as a detection tool for plagiarism screening. It will prevent potential misconduct and ensure that all manuscripts submitted to SHARE are from original works. The editor will undergo manuscript screening prior to forwarding it to the reviewer(s). Although the editor will make the last judgment, the similarity level should be no more than 30%.

As cited from the University of Oxford, plagiarism is presenting someone else’s work or ideas as your own, with or without their consent, by incorporating them into your work without full acknowledgment. All published and unpublished material, whether in manuscript, printed, or electronic form, is covered under this definition. Plagiarism may be intentional, reckless, or unintentional. Plagiarism can take diverse forms, from literal copying to paraphrasing the work of others.

To properly judge whether an author has plagiarized, we emphasize the following possible situations:

Verbatim (word for word) quotation without explicit acknowledgment
Quotations must always be identified as such by using either quotation marks or indentation and with complete referencing of the cited sources. It must always be apparent to the reader which parts are your own independent work and where you have drawn on someone else’s ideas and language.

Cutting and pasting from the Internet without clear acknowledgment
Information derived from the Internet must be adequately referenced and included in the bibliography. It is important to carefully evaluate all material found on the Internet, as it is less likely to have been through the same scholarly peer-review process as published sources.

Paraphrasing
Paraphrasing the work of others by altering a few words and changing their order or by closely following the structure of their argument is plagiarism if you do not give due acknowledgment to the author whose work you are using.

Inaccurate citation
It is important to cite correctly, according to the conventions of your discipline. As well as listing your sources (i.e., in a bibliography), you must indicate where a quoted passage comes from using a footnote or an in-text reference. Additionally, you should not include anything in your references or bibliography that you have not actually consulted. If you cannot gain access to a primary source, you must make it clear in your citation that your knowledge of the work has been derived from a secondary text (for example, Bradshaw, D. Title of Book, discussed in Wilson, E., Title of Book (London, 2004), p. 189). 

Auto-plagiarism
You must not submit work for an assessment that you have already submitted (partially or in full). Where earlier work by you is citable, i.e., it has already been published, you must reference it clearly. Identical pieces of work submitted concurrently will also be considered to be auto-plagiarism.

Publication Ethics

Share: Jurnal Ekonomi dan Keuangan Islam [SHARE] is a peer-reviewed journal that is available freely online and published twice a year, in June and December. This statement clarifies the ethical behavior of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in this journal, including the authors, the Chief Editor, the Editorial Board, the peer-reviewers, and the publisher. This statement is based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Bibliographic System

All references have to be in the same format as the text, employing the APA 6^th style. Authors are encouraged to utilize reference software such as Mendeley, Zotero, Endnote, RefWorks, etc. The reference should consist of 80% primary source (i.e., journal articles) issued at least ten years back, except for classical works.

Correction and Retraction Policies

The papers published in the Share: Jurnal Ekonomi dan Keuangan Islam [SHARE] will be considered to correct and retract if: 

1. They have clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either as a result of misconduct (e.g., data fabrication) or honest error (e.g., miscalculation or experimental error)
2. the findings have previously been published elsewhere without proper crossreferencing, permission, or justification (i.e., cases of redundant publication)
3. it constitutes plagiarism
4. it reports unethical research 

The retraction mechanism follows the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines. To access the guidelines, please click this LINK.