Open Access Policy
Acta Polytechnica is a Diamond Open Access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. According to the license, users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author, given that the original work is properly cited. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of Open Access.
Acta Polytechnica does not charge authors any publishing-related fees (submission charges, Article Processing Charges, or APCs, publications fees). Publishing in Acta Polytechnica is free of charge.
Licensing: All published articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Copyright and author rights: Authors retain full copyright of their work. By submitting, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive license to publish, archive, and distribute the work under the CC BY license. Authors may reuse their work in any form with appropriate citation to the original publication.
Self-archiving and repositories (Green Open Access): Authors are encouraged to deposit the final published PDF in (preferably) their institutional repository or any other repository suitable for their research area and community (e.g. subject repository). Authors are also encouraged to share their final published PDF on their personal website or research social media. There is no embargo period for self-archiving. We strongly recommend authors to use this formula when linking self-archived copy to the Acta Polytechnica website:
The version of record of this article, first published in Acta Polytechnica, is available online at Publisher’s website: https://doi.org/[insert DOI]
Authors are encouraged to share preprints by posting them on preprint servers (such as e.g. arviv.org) at the time of submission. After acceptance, authors shall add link to the final published version at Acta Polytechnica website, preferably using the article DOI (as given above).
Research data: To promote transparency, reproducibility, and reuse of research, we encourage authors (when possible) to provide access to research data underlying their publications. Research data includes any materials generated or analyzed in the research process that support the findings of the article, such as: Datasets, spreadsheets, code, software, and scripts, protocols, workflows, and methods, multimedia files (audio, video, images), statistical models and documentation, or any supplementary materials needed to reproduce results.
We strongly encourage authors to deposit their underlying research data/datasets at the time of publication in a publicly available repository of their choice (general repository like e.g. Zenodo or any other subject or community-based repository) under FAIR data principles.
We encourage authors to include data availability statement and link to underlying data in their articles where possible. All datasets supporting the article should be formally cited in the reference list, with DOIs or other persistent identifiers when available.
Publication Ethics Principles
Author:
- Follows the Author Guidelines for submission requirements.
- Is fully responsible for the quality, originality, and completeness of the published data, which make it possible to repeat the experiment.
- Is responsible to correctly cite and state the primary sources of cited information and data.
- Is responsible for ensuring that all who have contributed to the work as co-authors are stated, and no one who has not contributed is stated.
- Corresponding author is responsible for communication with all co-authors and their awareness of the contribution status.
- The authors warrant that the work is original and that it contains no content that is illegal or offends any proprietary rights or any copyrights.
- Artificial Intelligence and AI technologies cannot be listed as an author or cited as an author. Authors using AI technologies must declare this use and indicate it in the "Methodology" or "Statements and Declarations" section of the manuscript.
- All authors confirm that this work has not currently been sent for publication elsewhere and they agree that if it is accepted in Acta Polytechnica, it will not be submitted elsewhere.
- All authors confirm that all commercial interests, patent-licensing etc. that could be a subject of financial conflict related to the submitted article have been disclosed.
- The authors have the non-exclusive right to do anything with their work but they are obliged to cite the original publication.
- By submitting their manuscripts authors agree that articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY) licence.
- All authors confirm that DOI has been included to all cited references wherever available.
- Authors who violate publishing ethics will be blacklisted and prevented from submitting any further manuscripts to our editorial office.
The authors shall follow the international standards stated in the COPE document: Responsible research publication: international standards for authors.
Reviewer:
- By accepting the review, the reviewer confirms to be an independent expert and to meet the fixed deadlines.
- Handles information included in submitted yet-unpublished contribution as confidential content and guarantees that s/he will not hand it over to any third party or use it to his/her personal benefit.
- Writes a review to help the author to improve the quality of their work.
- If s/he founds out a possible conflict of interests or has a reasonable suspicion of plagiarism regarding the contribution, reports this fact to the editors.
The reviewers shall follow the COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers.
Editor:
- Handles all information, manuscripts and reviews as confidential materials and does not disseminate it outside the editorial board.
- Guarantees the anonymity of reviewers (single blind review).
The editors shall follow the COPE Code of Conduct for Journal Editor.
