About the Journal

Focus and Scope of the Journal

Biuletyn Szadkowski is an interdisciplinary journal focused on themes of the Szadek region. Bulletin’s profile includes not only the presence of the region but it also covers its historical role and scope of impact at the time when Szadek was one of the major urban areas in central Poland.

The magazine is aimed at academics and practitioners involved in the implementation of social and economic policy at local and regional levels as well as at the community of the region of Szadek.

Thematic scope of published works covers natural and anthropogenic environmental issues, socio-economic development issues, including cultural heritage in its broad sense.

The aim of the journal is to present, above all, issues related to the broadly understood heritage of the Szadków region, both in the environmental, natural, ecological, cultural and socio-economic context. In addition, the title aspires to be a kind of forum for the exchange of views by encouraging authors and readers to conduct polemics and discussions on the impact of this region on other areas of the country.

Biuletyn Szadkowski is a yearbook and has been published since 2001 by the University of Lodz in cooperation with the Municipality of Szadek. It contains reviewed articles, reports and notes.

The magazine is the result of a collaboration of academics from different disciplines and an important forum for an exchange of information and views on interdisciplinary knowledge of the region of Szadek.

The basic license for publishing articles in the journal is CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Attribution – Non-Commercial Use – No Derivatives). At the author's request it is possible to publish it under the CC-BY (Attribution) license.

Amount of research and review articles which were published last year: 7

Journals scoring by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education: 20 points (July 2023)

Publisher: Lodz University Press

Website of the journal: Biuletyn Szadkowski

Review Process

Contributions submitted for publication in Biuletyn Szadkowski undergo preliminary assessment by the editors in respect of meeting the formal requirements and the thematic profile of the journal. Next they are subjected to the process of double-blind review, on anonymous and confidential basis, by specialists in a given discipline.

Reviews have a written form and provide opinions whether  a contribution can be published in the presented version, requires minor or major corrections, or should be rejected as failing to meet the accepted criteria.

The review form can be found on the journal website.

The review procedure is consistent with the requirements of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education:

  1. Each submission should be assessed by at least two independent reviewers from outside the academic unit with which the author is affiliated,
  2. Author(s) and reviewers do not know their identities (double-blind review); in other cases the reviewer signs a declaration that there is no conflict of interests, meaning direct personal relationship between the author and the reviewer (kinship to the second degree, marriage), official subordination or direct academic cooperation during two years preceding the year of the review preparation,
  3. The review in written form provides a clear conclusion concerning the article acceptance conditions or its rejection,
  4. Acceptance or rejection criteria and the review form are provided on the journal website and in each issue of the journal,
  5. Names of the reviewers of particular articles or journal issues are not disclosed.

Open Access Policy

The basic license for publishing articles in the journal is CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Attribution – Non-Commercial Use – No Derivatives). At the author's request it is possible to publish it under the CC-BY (Attribution) license.

The journal has been available in Open Access since 2014 (see: archival issues in the University of Lodz Repository). First issue published in OJS in 2017 (see: Archives).

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Due to the implementation of the policy of open access to science works, the University of Lodz uses the Author’s right to deposit the work in the Repository of the University of Lodz and other distribution platforms, and the Author notes not to terminate the license agreement throughout its duration. See: Author Declaration Form

Personal copyrights are not transferable. Granting the license does not take away the property rights from the author.

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