Copyright
Biuletyn Kryminologiczny / The Polish Bulletin of Criminology is an Open Access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution.
All articles published in Biuletyn Kryminologiczny / The Polish Bulletin of Criminology are published under the CC-BY open licence. By submitting a publishing proposal, the authors agree to grant a free, non-exclusive and territorially unlimited CC-BY 4.0 PL license, if the article is accepted for publication in the annual.
The licence is available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.
The licence allows the following without restrictions as to the purpose (including commercial purposes):
- sharing – copying and redistributing the material in any medium or format
- adapting – remixing, transforming and building upon the licenced material other adapted material
The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as the terms of the licence are followed. The conditions for using the CC-BY licence are as follows:
- attribution (recognition of authorship) – the work should be properly marked, a link to the licence should be provided and any changes made should be indicated. This may be done in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests endorsement from the licensor
- no additional restrictions – it should not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the licence permits
Authors retain the copyright rights and full publishing rights without restrictions to the articles they publish in The Polish Bulletin of Criminology.
Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.
The submitted (preprint) version of an article is the author's version that has not been peer-reviewed, nor had any value added to it by Editorial Board of The Polish Bulletin of Criminology (such as formatting or copy editing).
The submitted version may be placed on:
- the author's personal website
- the author's company/institutional repository or archive
- not for profit subject-based preprint servers or repositories.
Self-archiving of the submitted version is not subject to an embargo period. We recommend including an acknowledgement of acceptance for publication and, following the final publication, authors may wish to include the following notice on the first page:
"This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: [full cite], which has been published in final form at [Link to final article using the DOI], available at CC-BY Licence."
The accepted (peer-reviewed) version of an article is the version that incorporates all amendments made during the peer review process, but prior to the final published version (the version of Record, which includes; copy and stylistic edits, online and print formatting, citation and other linking, deposit in abstracting and indexing services, and the addition of bibliographic and other material.
The accepted version may be placed on:
- the author's personal website
- the author's company/institutional repository or archive
- not for profit subject-based repositories such e-Biblioteka Prawnicza.
Articles may be deposited into repositories on acceptance without the embargo period.
The version posted must include the following notice on the first page:
"This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: [full cite], which has been published in final form at [link to final article using the DOI] in CC-BY Licence. This article may be used in accordance with this Licence (information above)."
Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to original/published version of record on the journal page.
