OPEN ACCESS STATEMENT
Melusine is a diamond open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Łódź Scientific Society (Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe). All content is freely available online immediately upon publication without charge to the user or their institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.
LICENSING AND COPYRIGHT
Starting from 2024, all articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. In previous years, articles were published under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Information about the applicable license is provided with each individual article.
Authors retain full copyright to their works. By submitting a manuscript, authors grant the publisher a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to publish, archive, and disseminate the accepted version. Authors may deposit the publisher’s final version (Version of Record) in institutional and subject repositories without embargo, in accordance with the CC BY 4.0 license.
ARCHIVING AND PRESERVATION
- assignment of DOIs (Crossref)
- digital archiving in PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN)
- national digital libraries such as POLONA
ARTICLE PROCESSING CHARGES (APCs)
The journal follows the diamond open access model. This means that:
- publishing in the journal is free of charge for authors,
- the journal does not charge submission fees, peer-review or editorial fees, nor article processing charges (APC),
- all published content is freely accessible to readers worldwide.
The costs of running the journal (including the maintenance of the OJS publishing system, editorial services, DOI assignment, and digital archiving) are covered by:
- the Łódź Scientific Society as the publisher,
- ministerial grants and programmes supporting scholarly and publishing activities,
- partner institutions – primarily the University of Łódź and other academic centres that support the development and dissemination of the journal.
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