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Since 2021 articles published in this journal are available under a licence Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). This change was made in 2021. Read more about the license CC BY 4.0: CC BY 4.0 overview, CC BY 4.0 Legal Code.
The articles published between 2017-2020 in Acta Protozoologica are available under a licence Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This change was made in 2019.
For aricles till 2017 your use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation – see: Ustawa z dnia 4 lutego 1994 r. o prawie autorskim i prawach pokrewnych.
All texts from the journal are published in electronic version. We strive to index full-text files in various databases.
The Jagiellonian University practices a "Open Access Policy to scholarly publications and research data of employees, doctoral students, and students of the Jagiellonian University", creating conditions for sharing scientific publications and research data of employees and doctoral students of the Jagiellonian University.
The purpose of the open access policy is to make the results of scientific research available openly and free of charge for all users, at the time chosen by the user, without technical restrictions. Articles published in the journal are archived at the Repository of the Jagiellonian University.
See Open Access Policy at Jagiellonian University: https://pod.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/polityka-otwartosci-uj.
The journal is digitally archived in the POLONA- National Digital Library of Poland and Academica (online interlibrary system).
Articles published since 2021:
Since 2021 all articles published in this journal are available under a licence Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). The Authors may self-archive a) the published version of the text and/or b) postprint version (peer-reviewed final electronic version of the publication accepted/approved by the Publisher for publication). Read more about the license: CC BY 4.0.
Articles published before 2017:
In order to self-archive your article published before 2017 you must first submit your inquiry for the Publisher's consent to self-archiving. Please contact us at: zgody@wuj.pl.
Articles from scope 2017- 2021:
Scientific publications published in 2017-2021 in "Acta Protozoologica" are licensed under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, which means that the Works can be copied and redistributed in any medium or format under specific terms (see more at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
The Editorial Office supports and implements the Open Access Policy to scholarly publications and research data of employees, doctoral students, and students of the Jagiellonian University.
We encourage authors to archive research data in open research data repositories. Authors are encouraged to correctly cite the research data in their publications, in particular to include the DOI number or another identifier of the research data.
Research Data Management Policy
What is research data?
Research data - data collected, processed, acquired or produced as part of scientific research or development works; digital and non-digital.
The Editorial Office supports and implements the Open Access Policy to scholarly publications and research data of employees, doctoral students, and students of the Jagiellonian University. More about research data at the Jagiellonian University: https://pod.uj.edu.pl/dane-badawcze.
We encourage authors to archive research data in open research data repositories:
It should be remembered that the research data must comply with the FAIR principles: 1. Findable; 2. Accessible; 3. Interoperable; 4.Reusable.
Research data catalogs:
Acta Protozoologica has been electronic-only journal since 2018. Therefore there is need for authors to observe the ICZN (2012) amendments. In particular, when articles include nomenclatural acts (such as describing a new species), it is necessary to register the work (not the name, although this is best practice) with ZooBank and to include the ZooBank registration number within the work itself (see Article 8.5.3; ICZN, 2012). Without this registration the name will not be valid.
ICZN = International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 2012. Amendment of Articles 8, 9, 10, 21 and 78 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature to expand and refine methods of publication. Bull. Zool. https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=3096.
ZooBank tutorial on how to register the paper can be found at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbvF2_xIlqk.