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Since Volume 57 (2022) articles published in this journal are available under a licence Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Read more about the license CC BY 4.0: license overview, Legal Code.
The articles published in Volumes 52 (2017) – 56 (2021) in this journal 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.
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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 Volume 57 (2022):
Since Volume 57 (2022) 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).
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 Volumes 52 (2017) – 56 (2021):
Scientific publications published in Volumes 52 (2017) – 56 (2021) 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.
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: