Open Access Policy

Compliance with Open Science Principles

The journal “Physics and Chemistry of Solid State” adheres to the principles of Open Science and supports international initiatives aimed at ensuring transparency, accessibility, and reusability of research outputs.

Open Access (Budapest Open Access Initiative)

The journal supports the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI)
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read/

All articles published in the journal are made available in open access, free of financial, legal, or technical barriers for readers. The journal does not impose embargo periods on access to full texts and ensures permanent online availability of all published materials.

The journal follows the Diamond Open Access model, providing free access to all published content without charging publication fees to authors.

 

Open Citations (Initiative for Open Citations, I4OC)

The journal supports the principles of the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC)
https://i4oc.org/

The editorial board promotes openness of bibliographic data and does not restrict access to reference lists published with articles. Citations are fully accessible for both human and machine reading, contributing to the development of open scientometric and bibliometric research.

Open Abstracts (Initiative for Open Abstracts, I4OA)

The journal supports the principles of the Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA)
https://i4oa.org/

Abstracts of all articles published in the journal are openly available without restrictions and can be freely indexed by search engines, scientific databases, and open-access aggregators.

Open Research Information

(Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information)

The journal shares the values and principles of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information
https://barcelona-declaration.org/

The editorial board supports openness of research information, transparency of research processes, and responsible use of research metrics.

Additional Open Science Practices

The journal also:

  • encourages authors to use persistent identifiers (ORCID, DOI);

  • supports openness of research data where possible and in accordance with disciplinary standards;

  • promotes transparency of editorial and peer-review processes;

  • adheres to open licensing policies and responsible reuse of published materials.

Information on the journal’s Open Science policy is publicly available on the official website of the journal.