Open Access and Licensing

University Scientific Notes operates under an open access model, ensuring free and unrestricted access to all published content.

All articles are made freely available on the journal’s official website immediately upon publication and may be used in accordance with the applicable licensing terms.

Open access model

The journal follows a diamond open access model, which means that:

  • no fees are charged for submission, peer review, or publication;
  • no fees are required to access published articles;
  • full-text content is freely available to all users.

The journal supports the principles of open science and promotes the wide dissemination of research results.

Licensing

All content published in the journal is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Under this license, users are permitted to:

  • share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format);
  • adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercial use);

provided that they:

  • give appropriate credit to the author(s) and the source;
  • provide a link to the license;
  • indicate if changes were made.

Copyright

Authors retain copyright of their work.

By submitting a manuscript, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive right to:

  • publish the work;
  • distribute it in electronic and other formats;
  • include it in databases, repositories, and indexing systems.

Authors are free to use, distribute, and reproduce their published work, provided that proper citation of the original publication in the journal is given.

Archiving and dissemination

The journal ensures long-term access to its content and supports its dissemination through:

  • the journal’s official website;
  • institutional repositories;
  • national and international databases;
  • other scholarly information systems.

Authors are allowed to deposit both the published version and the accepted manuscript in open repositories, provided that the full bibliographic reference and DOI are included.

Use of published materials

Use of journal content does not require prior permission from the editorial office, provided that it complies with the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license and proper attribution is given.