Research data

The editorial board does not collect research data and the presentation of the research data management plan does not constitute a requirement that must be met in order for a paper to be published. By research data, the editorial board means materials of factual nature recorded in the form of numbers, text, graphics or sound, generally considered by the scientific community to be necessary for the evaluation of the results of scientific research. However, in certain circumstances authors may be asked to provide research data, also after the publication of their paper.

 Archiving

Texts are archived on the OJS platform and in the KUL Institutional Repository. Our OJS system uses OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) protocol to export metadata. The KUL Institutional Repository (ReKUL) provides journals with the following features: dissemination in open access and long-term storage; description of the document using metadata in compliance with the Dublin Cor standard; document protection by assigning persistent digital resource identifiers in the Handle system; possibility to send and disseminate files saved in various formats and do it loss-free, both for single files and file sets; possibility to store research data in single files or file sets; possibility to indicate an alternative document location using URI, ISSN or DOI; possibility to use the mechanisms of Open Access Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), which allows to integrate with search engines and databases; possibility to track statistics concerning the deposited documents.

 Licences

Papers published in the journal are covered by the following licence: Creative Commons  Attribution /Non-Commercial Use /No Derivatives / 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Open Access

Open Access means the absence of technical and legal restrictions concerning the use of scientific materials posted on the publicly accessible Internet. This assumes further use of these materials in compliance with copyright laws on permitted use or under an unlimited free licence of Creative Commons. Main Open Access development directions are open repositories and peer-reviewed Open Access journals. Recognizing the need to ensure the highest standards of science and taking care to follow good practices in carrying out and disseminating research results, the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin and the Learned Society KUL took efforts to prepare the published journals and the infrastructure for adopting a policy of openness with regard to scientific publications and research data, in accordance with the recommendations of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education provided in the document titled Directions for Open Access development (2015).

Fees, sources of financing

The Journal does not charge authors for the publication of their papers. Access to the published content is free of charge. The Journal does not publish any advertisements,  the sources of its funding  are ministerial programmes and University subsidies.