Open Access Policy

1. Open Access Policy
The editorial open access policy of the Collection is developed based on the recommendations and standards of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI definition of Open Access). The Collection adopts the concept of “open access” as defined in the official documents of the Budapest Open Access Initiative. By “open access” to peer-reviewed scientific literature, we mean free public access via the Internet, which allows any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose without financial, legal, or technical barriers, except those inseparable from gaining access to the Internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution is the requirement to respect copyright, which ensures the author’s right to control the integrity of their work and to receive proper attribution and citation.
The Collection aims to promote the development of global open access to scientific information and research. The publisher provides readers, researchers, and institutions with free online access to all published materials (e.g., for accessing content or downloading, distributing, printing, copying, and reproducing in any medium, except for modifying the content or using it for commercial purposes) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). The license is valid provided that the original work is properly cited.
The Collection provides immediate open access to all published materials, making research results freely available to the public and promoting global knowledge exchange. This means that:

  • any Internet user has free and unrestricted access to the full texts of articles published in the Collection;
  • manuscripts are available without subscription or financial barriers;
  • all materials are made available online immediately after publication (without delay).

2. Archiving Policy
The Collection implements various procedures aimed at ensuring long-term access to the content hosted on its servers, including:

  • regular backup of data;
  • monitoring of technological aspects to prevent format obsolescence or outdated software issues;
  • use of digital preservation metadata;
  • implementation of Digital Object Identifiers (DOI).