Copyrights and licensing

Licensing conditions: authors reserve copyright and grant the publisher the right to publish original manuscripts, which present the findings of experimental and theoretical research and have not been published previously and have not been submitted for publication in other journals. All materials are distributed based on Creative Commons Attribution License International CC-BY. The license allows others to copy and redistribute the material giving appropriate credit.

By submitting an original manuscript to Biosphere Reserve "Askania Nova" Reports, an author confirms that a submitted paper:

- does not violate the copyrights of other persons or organizations;

- has not been published previously and has not been submitted for publication in other journals.

An author delegates the rights to Biosphere Reserve "Askania Nova" Reports:

  • to publish an article in Ukrainian (English) and distribute its printed copy;
  • to translate an article in English (if needed) and distribute its printed copy;
  • to distribute the article’s electronic version via any electronic means (publishing on the journal’s official website, electronic databases, repositories, etc.).

An author retrains the right to act as follows without approval from the editorial board and founders:

  1. use the article’s materials in whole or in part for educational purposes;
  2. use the article’s materials in whole or in part for writing their dissertations;
  3. use the article’s materials for writing proceedings, conference reports, and oral presentations;
  4. publish the article’s electronic copy (incl. the final electronic version from the official web-site) on:
  • personal web resources (websites, web pages, blogs, etc.);
  • web-resources of institutions persons affiliate with (incl. electronic institutional repositories);
  • non-profit open web resources (e.g., org)

In all cases, a bibliographic reference to the article or a hyperlink to its electronic copy on the journal’s official website is obligatory.