Author self-archiving

The journal adheres to the Platinum Open Access policy, including allowing and even encouraging authors to post their accepted articles on their own personal websites or other repositories (Research Gate and/or on the repository sites of their scientific organizations) both before and after publication of the article, indicating in the bibliographic description a link to the publication of the final version of the article in this journal.

The journal adheres to the policy of "Free Self-Archiving".

Terms and definitions

We use the following terms and concepts:

- Preprint: an early version of a manuscript (draft) before it is sent to the journal editorial board for review.

- Review version: the version of a manuscript accepted by the Editorial Board for review and sent to reviewers for examination (under review).

- Accepted for publication version of the article: the version of a manuscript accepted for publication by the decision of the Editorial Board and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. This version of the document with all author's corrections after review, but subject to further literary and scientific editing and formatting, layout and proofreading in the publishing house.

- Final version: the version of an article officially published as part of the issue. Articles published in Online First mode are not final versions - Online First publishes version of articles accepted for publication. The final version of an article may contain post-publication corrections.

- Personal page: A page created by you that contains information about you and your research and is hosted on non-commercial online platforms (e.g., a page within a university or research organization's website). User profile pages on commercial platforms (ResearchGate, Academia.edu, Facebook, LinkedIn, VKontakte, and other social networks) are not personal pages.

- Organizational repository: a set of pages hosted for non-commercial purposes by educational or scientific organizations and their subdivisions to reflect the scientific contribution of the organization and to provide visitors with access to the results of the organization’s research.

- Thematic repository: a collection of pages hosted for non-commercial purposes by educational or scientific organizations and their affiliates to provide access to the results of that organization's research on a particular topic or range of topics.

- Commercial and non-commercial: Commercial is defined as any activity directly or indirectly intended to produce financial gain. In deciding whether to classify activities or intentions as commercial or non-commercial, we focus on the substance of the activities more than the status of the organization.

What can be self-archived by authors and when

 

Personal page

Organization repository

Non-profit Thematic Repository (including PubMed Central)

Commercial repository or social network (e.g., ResearchGate, Academia.edu, SSRN)

Preprint,

Review version

At any time.

Accepted for publication version of the article

After official notification from the editorial board about acceptance of the article for publication

Final version

After publication of the article as part of the issue on the journal's website 

Plan S Compliance

Our self-archiving policy (Platinum Open Access) complies with all Plan S provisions, and the provisions of the author's contract to publish the article are fully consistent with the provisions of sponsors' and funding agencies' c OAlition S contracts with grantees and authors of articles.

Creative Commons and other licenses

Preprints and manuscript versions under review may be published (self-archived) by authors under any license of their choice. We recommend Creative Commons CC-BY or any other Creative Commons family license.

Accepted versions of articles may be published under the terms of the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND open license or its equivalent, but no more than a free version. We do not allow accepted versions of articles to be published under such free terms as the Creative Commons CC-BY license.

Third-party materials

Before publishing online (self-archiving), authors should ensure that they have all necessary rights and permissions to publish all components of the article. When publishing (self-archiving) an article under a Creative Commons license, the author must have the rights to place under the appropriate license all borrowed elements in the published article. The copyright holders of the borrowed elements of the published article must be explicitly indicated in all cases, as well as the information that it is impossible to use these elements of the article without a separate permission of the copyright holders.

Closed repositories and embargo period

Articles can be placed in closed repositories either before and after official publication on the journal's website. A closed repository is a repository in which only the administrators of the repository site have access to the content.

Article descriptions (titles, abstracts, author information and references) can be made available both before and after the publication of the article as part of an issue on the journal's website. Full texts of the final versions of articles can be made available on third-party sites with the obligatory indication of the link to the publication on the journal's website (including DOI).

Content placement in repositories

Journal editors allows and even encourage authors to post accepted versions and/or preprints of articles on their web pages, their organizations' websites, and on public repositories (such as ResearchGate or medRxiv.org). Once an article is published, the Editorial Board requires authors to provide a link to the final version of the article on the journal's website.

We require the following information when articles are posted to third-party repositories:

  • - if the article has not yet been published - a clear statement that the manuscript has been accepted for publication or submitted for review, with a link to the journal's website;
  • - for all published articles – a link to the final version of the article to the journal's website (including via DOI);
  • - A clear statement of the terms of the license under which the published version of the article is hosted.

Examples of wording:

  • - This article was published in the Journal of the National Congress of Historians [https://doi.org/XXX]. This version is free to view and download for personal, non-commercial use only. This publication may be used for distribution and other non-commercial use without creating derivative works on other venues. © copyright holder.
  • - This article was published in the Journal of the National Congress of Historians [http://doi.org/XXX]. This version is published under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND license. This version of the article may not be distributed or used for commercial purposes. Derivative works may not be redistributed. © copyright holder.

Citing articles in repositories

When citing an accepted version of an article or an earlier version of an article for publication, we ask readers and authors cite the final version of the article and use the DOI.