Open Access Policy

The scientific journal "Zvyazok" provides open access to all published materials in order to widely disseminate the results of scientific research, support scientific communication, and promote the development of science and education.

The journal's publications are distributed under the terms of the  Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) . 

The journal editorial board supports the publication of research data underlying the results of the publication in open institutional, national or international research data repositories. The editorial board recommends that published datasets comply with the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles, which ensure the searchability, accessibility, compatibility and reuse of data. Authors can place their data in appropriate repositories (e.g. Zenodo, Figshare, Dryad or institutional repositories) and provide links to them in the article in the “Data Availability” section.

Users have the right to freely read, download, copy and print the submitted materials, search the content and link to the published articles, distribute their full text and use them for any lawful non-commercial purpose (including educational or scientific) and with mandatory reference to the authors of the works and the original publication in this journal.

Budapest Open Access Initiative

DECLARATION ON OPEN ACCESS TO THE JOURNAL

Introduction.  The Internet has fundamentally changed the practical and economic realities of the dissemination of scientific knowledge and cultural heritage. It now offers the opportunity to create a global and interactive representation of human knowledge, including cultural heritage, and to ensure universal access to it. We recognize the obligations associated with the challenges of the Internet as a new functional environment for the dissemination of knowledge. It is clear that these changes will significantly modify the nature of scientific publications and the existing system of quality assurance. In line with the spirit of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, the Charter for European Cultural Heritage Online and the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing, we sign the Berlin Declaration to promote the Internet as a functional tool for the global scientific knowledge base and its implementation in human activities, and to identify the measures required by scientific management, research institutions, funding agencies, libraries, archives and museums.

Purpose.  Our mission of knowledge dissemination will not be complete unless information is widely and reliably accessible to society. New opportunities for knowledge dissemination, not only through traditional media, but also through the Internet within the new paradigm of open access, must be supported. We define open access as a comprehensive source of human knowledge and cultural heritage that has been pre-approved by the scientific community. In order to realize the vision of a global and accessible representation of knowledge, the future network must be resilient, interactive and transparent. Content and software tools must be freely available and interoperable.

Defining the contribution to open access.  The organization of open access as an important procedure requires active commitments and contributions from every producer of scientific knowledge and bearer of cultural heritage. Contributions to open access include the results of original scientific research, primary data and metadata, primary sources, digital representations of pictorial and graphic materials, educational multimedia materials.

Open access contributions must satisfy two conditions:

1. Authors and copyright holders of such contributions must grant all users free, irrevocable, full and fair access to use, distribute, transmit and display published works; to prepare and distribute derivative works in any digital medium for responsible purposes; to present copyright attributes (the standards of the scientific community will continue to provide a mechanism for copyright protection and responsible use of published works, as is the case now), and to make small numbers of printed copies for personal use.
2. The full version of the work and all appendices, including a copy of the permission as specified above, must be placed in an appropriate standard electronic format, in at least one online repository (thus published) that uses appropriate technical standards (compatible with the definitions of the Open Access Archives Initiative Protocol) and that is maintained by an academic institution, scientific community, government agency, or other reputable organization that strives for open access, unrestricted distribution, interoperability, and long-term archiving.

Supporting the transition to the electronic open access paradigm.

The journal is interested in further advancing the new paradigm of open access for the benefit of science and society, so we hope to contribute to progress through:

• supporting our researchers and grantees in publishing their work in accordance with the principles of the open access paradigm;
• supporting cultural heritage bearers in open access to their resources via the Internet;
• developing tools and ways to evaluate contributions to open access and online journals in order to support standards of quality assurance and good scientific practice;
• ensuring that open access publications, having passed the appropriate review procedure, are posted as quickly as possible;
• providing benefits inherent to contributions to the open access infrastructure through the development of software tools, provision of content, creation of metadata or publication of individual articles.

We clearly understand that the process of moving towards open access is changing the distribution of knowledge in accordance with legal and financial aspects. Our editorial board intends to find a solution that supports the further development of existing legal and financial schemes in order to accelerate the optimal use and open access to knowledge.

We encourage the publication and sharing of open data in accordance with the Panton Principles and the FAIR Data Principles. Data can be published in a variety of ways, such as by being stored in data repositories associated with the relevant article, or as data files or packages that accompany the article. Data sets should be hosted in an appropriate trusted repository, and the associated identifier (URL or DOI) of the dataset(s) should be added to the data resources section of the article. Citations to datasets should also be added to the article's citation list with DOI (if available). If there is no dedicated data repository, authors should store their datasets in a shared repository, such as Zenodo or similar.