Open Access Policy, Copyright and Licensing
“Law Journal of Donbass” provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Full-text access to scientific articles of the journal is presented on the official website in the Archives section.
This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access. The licensing policy is compatible with the overwhelming majority of open access and archiving policies.
“Law Journal of Donbass” is an open access journal, which means all its content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author as long as they cite the source. The journal is licensed by Creative Commons Attribution International CC-BY.
Authors retain full copyright of their articles and have the right to deposit the final published version or the accepted manuscript in any institutional or subject repository without restrictions.
Archiving and Long-Term Preservation Policy
The journal ensures reliable and long-term preservation of all published materials in accordance with international digital archiving standards.
To safeguard scientific content:
all journal issues are archived in the V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine;
articles are deposited in the institutional repositories of universities collaborating with the authors;
the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform is used, supporting Open Access and meeting modern digital archiving standards.
Each published article:
is permanently available on the journal website without time limitations;
has a unique DOI (Digital Object Identifier), ensuring stable and long-term access.
Self-Archiving Policy
The journal supports the principles of open science and allows authors to self-archive their publications without any time restrictions (no embargo period).
Authors have the right to deposit:
- the accepted manuscript (accepted version);
- the final published version of the article (publisher’s version)
in the following resources:
- institutional and national repositories;
- university digital libraries;
- personal websites of the authors;
- academic social networks, such as ResearchGate.
When reposting materials, authors must provide a full bibliographic reference to the published article in the journal, including its DOI.
Open Data Policy
The journal encourages authors to deposit all data supporting the results of their research in open repositories (institutional, national, or international), in line with FAIR principles. A DOI or other persistent data identifier should be provided in the article metadata and/or in the Data Availability section.
