OPEN ACCESS, LICENSING AND COPYRIGHT
Public Administration and State Security Aspects is an open access journal that provides free and unrestricted access to scholarly content for everyone.
Access Model
Diamond Open Access
The journal operates under the Diamond Open Access model: publication is free of charge for both authors and readers.
› All published content is available in open access immediately upon publication.
License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
All articles are published under the CC BY 4.0 license. Under this license, anyone is free to:
›copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
›adapt, remix, and use the material for any purpose, including commercially
provided that appropriate credit is given and a link to the license is included.
Copyright
› Authors retain copyright over their work.
› By publishing in the journal, the author(s) grant the editorial board a non-exclusive right of first publication under the CC BY 4.0 license.
› No transfer of property rights to the publisher takes place.
Type of License for Use of Copyright Objects
| License | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) |
| License type | Free (open) license |
| Commercial use | Permitted |
| Derivative works | Permitted |
| Required condition | Attribution (credit to original authors) |
| Embargo | None — immediate access upon publication |
| Copyright retention | Retained by authors |
Article Processing Charge (APC)
✓ The journal charges no fees for submission, processing, review, or publication. Publication is free of charge for all authors.
Open Research Data Policy
The journal supports the principles of open science and encourages authors to make their research data publicly available in accordance with the FAIR principles:
Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable
› Authors who have datasets, survey results, statistical tables, or other materials supporting the findings of a published article are encouraged to deposit them in institutional, national, or international research data repositories, with a DOI assigned and a corresponding reference included in the article metadata.
Self-Archiving
› Authors are permitted to deposit any version of their article (preprint, accepted manuscript, or published version) in open access — on a personal website or institutional repository.
› Without any restrictions or embargo.
