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Since 2023 (with exception of Vol. 8 2023) 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: 1 (2017) – 6 (2022) and Volume 8 (2023) (special issue with translated articles) 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.
Since 2023 journal allow authors to retain the copyright of their papers without restrictions. Authors grants the publisher the non-exclusive unlimited license to the Work for the multiple release and distribution.
Before 2023 authors transferred copyright to the Publisher.
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 2023:
Since 2023 (with exception of Vol. 8 2023) 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).
Scientific publications published in Volumes 1 (2017) – 6 (2022) and * (20203):
Scientific publications published in Volumes: 1 (2017) – 6 (2022) and Volume 8 (2023) in this journal 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:
Catalogs of open research data repositories: