Art Inquiry 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.
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.
The journal operates according to the diamond open access model. This means that:
At the same time, as of 2026, authors of articles that have been finally accepted for publication after the completion of the peer-review process are required to pay a mandatory professional language editing fee.
In 2026, this fee amounts to: 400 PLN or 100 EUR
This is a flat-rate fee, regardless of the length of the article.
The language editing fee:
The costs of running the journal, including in particular the maintenance of the OJS publishing platform, editorial support, DOI registration, and digital archiving, are covered by:
The journal is financed by the Ministry of Education and Science within the ‘Development of Scientific Journals’ programme under agreement no. RCN/SN/0115/2021/1 of 6 December 2022. Project duration: 31 October 2022 – 31 October 2024. The grant amount is 40 000,00 PLN. The programme aims to support editorial staff in the implementation of the journal’s development strategy.
As of 2026, in order to maintain the high linguistic and editorial standard of Art Inquiry, authors of articles that have been finally accepted for publication after the completion of the peer-review process are required to pay a mandatory professional language editing fee.
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VOLUME EDITORS: Aneta Pawłowska, Paulina Sztabińska-Kałowska
