Open access policy/ copyright/ archiving/ APC

OPEN ACCESS STATEMENT

Acta Geographica Lodziensia 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 does not charge any submission fees or article processing charges. Publication in Acta Geographica Lodziensia is free of charge for authors.