Open Access Policy

The scientific journal adheres to the Open Access policy. All articles are made freely and permanently available immediately after the issue is published. Real-time full-text access to the journal’s scientific articles is provided in the Archive section. This approach aligns with the definition of open access by the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). The licensing policy of this journal is compatible with the majority of open access, archiving, and repository policies, including DOAJ.

Depositing Policy

  1. Authors are allowed to store (deposit) the publisher’s PDF versions of their published articles in institutional or subject-specific repositories, where they will be openly accessible, ensuring maximum visibility and impact of the research. Depositing an unpublished version of the article is not permitted.
  2. The editorial board encourages authors to make their published works available on the Internet (e.g., in institutional repositories or personal websites), as this promotes productive scientific discussion and positively affects citation speed and dynamics.
  3. Authors have the right to enter into additional agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the article in the form in which it was published by this journal (e.g., depositing it in an institutional repository or including it in a monograph), provided that a reference to the original publication in this journal is maintained.

Long-Term Preservation and Accessibility

The journal ensures digital preservation of publications:

The editorial board encourages authors of published articles to share research data that support their findings. Data that confirm research results are available from the authors only with their consent. Authors can be contacted via the email address provided in the article. The rights and privacy of human research participants must be protected.

Recommendations:

  1. Before sharing data, remove identifiers (name, address, phone numbers, etc.).
  2. Adopt strategies to minimize the risk of unauthorized disclosure of personal identifiers.
  3. Researchers can reduce the risk of subject identification by masking part of the data.
  4. When entering a data use agreement, include provisions to protect confidentiality.

Rights of Readers and Users

Readers may:

  • to access all materials free of charge, that is, to freely read, download, and use articles and full issues without subscription or payment;
  • to share all published materials of the journal for non-commercial as well as commercial purposes, provided that the authorship and the source of publication are properly acknowledged;;
  • use articles for educational and research purposes;
  • cite and reference the content of the articles without restrictions.

All authors and readers have open (“diamond”) access—free of charge for both authors and users—to all published articles and issues of this scholarly periodical.

Authors do not pay any publication fees.

FAIR Data

To improve findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reuse of digital assets, authors are encouraged to provide links to their FAIR data in accordance with the FAIR Principles for Scientific Data Management and Stewardship. More details on the FAIR principles followed by the editorial board can be found here.

The Editorial Board supports the Budapest Open Access Initiative and operates in accordance with the Open Science Policy of Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University (details are available at this link).