Copyright, Licensing & Deposit Policies

COPYRIGHT STATEMENT

Authors submitting materials to this journal agree to the following provisions:

  1. Authors receive copyright to their work immediately upon publication and retain this right forever without any restrictions.
  2. The copyright start date for an article corresponds to the publication date of the issue in which it is included.

CONTENT LICENSING

  1. Authors grant the journal the right of first publication of their manuscript under the terms of  the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY0) license , which allows others to freely read, download, copy, and print submitted materials, search for content, and link to published articles, distribute their full text, and use them for any lawful non-commercial purpose (including educational or scientific) with mandatory attribution to the authors and the original publication in this journal.
  2. Published original articles may not be used by users (other than authors) for commercial purposes or distributed by third-party intermediary organizations on a paid basis.

ESCROW POLICY

  1. The journal editorial board encourages authors to place their manuscripts on the Internet (for example, in institutional repositories or on personal websites), as this contributes to the emergence of productive scientific discussion and has a positive effect on the efficiency and dynamics of citation (see the declared deposit policy of this journal in the Sherpa/Romeo directory).
  2. Authors have the right to enter into independent additional agreements regarding the non-exclusive distribution of the article in the form in which it was published by this journal (for example, to place it in the institution's electronic repository or to publish it as part of a monograph), provided that a link to the original publication in this journal is preserved.
  3. Self-archiving of postprints (versions of manuscripts approved for publication during the review process) during their editorial processing or PDF versions published by the publisher is permitted.
  4. Self-archiving of preprints (versions of manuscripts before review) is not permitted.