Open Access Policy

From 2022, the basic license to publish articles in the journal is CC-BY (Attribution), previously CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Attribution - Non-commercial Use - No Derivatives).

The journal has been available in Open Access since 2015 (see: archival issues in the University of Lodz Repository). First issue published in OJS in 2016 (see: Archives).

The Author grants the University of Lodz the non-exclusive publishing rights license for the work in all fields of exploitation listed in Art. 50 of the Act of February 4, 1994 about copyright and related rights, also by an open access (including the rules of the Creative Commons license BY). The license also includes the right for further sublicensing in the aforementioned fields of exploitation. See: Copyright Notice

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.

License allows to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material) for any purpose, even commercially, providing an appropriate credit is given – you must provide the name of the creator and attribution parties, a copyright notice, a license notice, a disclaimer notice, and the link to the material, a link to the license, and you must indicate the changes made.

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