Open Access Policy
Open Access Policy
The "Theory and practice of metallurgy" journal is a Diamond Open Access Journal. All its content is available free of charge.
Users can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search the full text of articles, as well as to establish HTML links to them, without having to seek the consent of the author or publisher.
Self-archiving Policy
Authors can deposit preprints (versions before peer review), Author Accepted Manuscripts (AAMs) and/or Versions of Record (VoRs) in a repository of the authors' choice (e.g. an institutional, disciplinary and general-purpose repository. etc.), author's personal website (including social networking sites, such as ResearchGate, Academia.edu, etc.), and/or departmental website prior or during the submission process, at any time after the acceptance of the manuscript and at any time after publication.
Full bibliographic information (authors, article title, journal title, volume, issue, pages) about the original publication must be provided and links must be made to the article's DOI and the license.
The journal is archived in the Common Repository of the University of Science and Technologies.
The journal participates in the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) – a distributed archiving system that creates permanent archives of the journal to preserve and restore the authentic original version of the content.
Metadata Policy
The journal metadata are freely accessible to all, and freely reusable by all, under the terms of the Creative Commons Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication license.
Adherence to FAIR and DORA Principles
The Editorial board adheres to the principles of DORA (the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment), evaluating manuscripts solely on the basis of their scientific merit, rather than on the basis of journal metrics such as the impact factor.
The journal's Editorial Board supports the FAIR principles for research information.
We encourage authors to share the data necessary to verify the validity of published results and/or improve the published manuscript, following the principle of "as open as possible, as closed as necessary."
Authors may deposit relevant data in a FAIR-compliant repository – institutional, disciplinary, or general-purpose (e.g. Zenodo). Authors should also provide via the repository any information needed to replicate, validate, and/or reuse the results / their study and analysis of the research data. This includes details of any software, instruments and other tools used to process the results. A DOI will be assigned to each research data file, enabling the research data to be cited the same way as publications. Authors affirm that data protection regulations, ethical standards, third party copyright and other rights have been respected in the process of collecting, processing and sharing data.
Exceptions: We recognize that open sharing of data may not always be feasible. Exceptions to open access to research data underlying publications include the following: obligation to protect results, confidentiality obligations, security obligations, the obligation to protect personal data and other legitimate constraints. Where open access is not provided to the data needed to validate the conclusions of a publication that reports original results, authors should make metadata available explaining the research and access rules to the data.
Exceptions to the Data Open Access Policy
The editorial board recognises that, in certain cases, full disclosure of data is impossible or impractical due to legal, ethical, or contractual restrictions.
Grounds for restricting access to research data include, but are not limited to:
- Commercial confidentiality: where the research was commissioned by a private company and the results belong to that company, or where the data contain confidential commercial information, know-how, or protected intellectual property.
- Contractual obligations: where access to the data is restricted by the terms of a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) or other contractual arrangement with a partner or sponsor.
- Personal data protection: where the data contain information that allows for the identification of an individual, and their disclosure would contravene the requirements of personal data protection legislation.
- Preparation for patenting: where the disclosure of data could prevent or complicate the acquisition of legal protection for the results of intellectual activity.
In such cases, the editorial board requests that authors indicate in the manuscript the existence of restrictions, their grounds, and the conditions under which interested researchers may obtain access to the data.
