Open Access Policy
«Contemporary Issues in Metallurgy» is a «diamond» open-access journal.
All of its content is available free of charge.
Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search the full text of articles, and create HTML links to them without seeking permission from the author or publisher.
Archiving and self-archiving policy
Authors may post preprints (versions of manuscripts prior to peer review) and manuscripts recommended for publication following peer review in repositories, on authors’ personal websites, on social media (including ResearchGate, Academia.edu and others), on the websites of universities and research institutions, as well as the full text of articles at any time after their publication. In doing so, it is essential to provide complete bibliographic information (authors, article title, journal title, volume, issue, pages) about the original publication, including a link to the article’s DOI and licence.
The journal is archived in the Common Repository of the University of Science and Technologies and 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.
Electronic versions are sent to the V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine for archiving.
Metadata Policy
The journal’s metadata is freely available to all and may be freely used by anyone under the terms of the Creative Commons Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication licence.
Adherence to FAIR and DORA principles
The journal’s editorial board adheres to the principles of DORA (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 to 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 must also provide, via the repository, any information necessary for the replication, verification and/or reuse of the results of their research and the analysis of research data. This includes detailed information on any software, tools and other resources used to process the results.
Each research data file will be assigned a DOI, enabling research data to be cited in the same way as publications. Authors confirm that data protection regulations, ethical standards, third-party copyright and other rights have been observed during the collection, processing and sharing of data.
Exceptions to the open access policy
The journal’s editorial board recognises that in certain cases, full disclosure of data is impossible or inadvisable due to legal, ethical or contractual restrictions.
The grounds for restricting access to research data include, in particular:
- Commercial confidentiality: if the research was commissioned by a private company and the results belong to that company, or if the data contains confidential commercial information, know-how or protected intellectual property.
- Contractual obligations: if access to the data is restricted by the terms of a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) or other contractual arrangement with a partner or sponsor.
- Protection of personal data: if the data contains personally identifiable information and its disclosure contravenes data protection legislation.
- Preparation for patenting: if disclosure of the data could prevent or hinder the obtaining of legal protection for the results of intellectual activity.
In such cases, the journal’s editorial board asks authors to indicate in the manuscript the existence of restrictions, their grounds, and the conditions under which interested researchers may access the data.
