The journal’s open access policy is developed in accordance with the recommendations and standards of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition of Open Access.
The journal adopts the concept of open access as defined in the official documents of the Budapest Open Access Initiative.
By open access to peer-reviewed scholarly literature, the journal understands free public access via the Internet, which allows any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of 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 related to the user’s personal Internet access. The only restriction concerning reproduction and distribution of materials is compliance with copyright law, which ensures that the author retains the right to control the integrity of the work, proper acknowledgment of authorship, and correct citation.
The journal is committed to promoting global open access to scientific information and research. The publisher provides readers, scholars, and institutions with free online access to all published materials (e.g., for referencing, downloading, distribution, printing, copying, and reproduction in any medium, except modification of content or commercial use) in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC). The license applies on the condition that the original work is properly cited. Written permission from the Publisher is required for any commercial use of the published materials.
The journal provides immediate open access to all published materials, making research results freely available to the public and promoting global knowledge exchange. This means that:
- every Internet user has free and unlimited access to the full texts of articles published in the journal, with no subscription or financial barriers;
- all materials are made available online immediately upon publication (without unnecessary delay).