RESEARCH DATA, ARCHIVING, LICENCES, OPEN ACCESS

Research data

The Editorial Board does not collect research data and the presentation of the research data management plan does not constitute a requirement that must be met in order for a paper to be published. By research data, the Editorial Board means materials of factual nature recorded in the form of numbers, text, graphics or sound, generally considered by the scientific community to be necessary for the evaluation of the results of scientific research. However, in certain circumstances authors may be asked to provide research data.

Archiving

Texts are archived on the OJS Platform CzasKUL and in the KUL Institutional Repository. Our OJS (Open Journal System) system uses OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) protocol to export metadata. The KUL Institutional Repository (ReKUL) provides journals with the following features: dissemination in open access and long-term storage; description of the document using metadata in compliance with the Dublin Cor standard; document protection by assigning persistent digital resource identifiers in the Handle system; possibility to send and disseminate files saved in various formats and do it loss-free, both for single files and file sets; possibility to store research data in single files or file sets; possibility to select Creative Commons licence in order to enable open access; possibility to indicate an alternative document location using URI, ISSN or DOI; possibility to use the mechanisms of Open Access Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), which allows to integrate with search engines and databases; possibility to track statistics concerning the deposited documents.

Licences

All articles published in Acta Mediaevalia. Series Nova are accessible online via Open Access and can be downloaded, free of charge, under the Creative Commons CC BY (Attribution International) 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). 

Open Access

Acta Mediaevalia. Series Nova is an Open Access Journal, which means that all content is freely available, without charge to the user or his/her institution. 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 Journal provides immediate Open Access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

The Open Access model ensures that scholarly publications are available to all users free of charge and may be accessed at any place and time without technical restrictions. Recognizing the need to maintain the highest standards in research and to promote good practices in conducting and disseminating scholarly work, the John Paull II Catholic University of Lublin (KUL), as the Publisher, has adopted the “Open Access Policy for Scientific Publications and Research Data of Employees, Doctoral Candidates, and Students of KUL” (Rector’s Ordinance of 30 October 2025). In accordance with this policy, journals published or co-published by the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin are recommended to publish in the Open Access model using open licenses, in particular Creative Commons, on the KUL Journals Platform (CzasKUL) or on a journal platform managed by a co-publisher. Responsibility for supporting the development and maintenance of the high academic standing of KUL’s publications, as well as for disseminating research results – particularly through Open Access – is entrusted to the Repository and Publishing Positioning Section at KUL University Press. The Section coordinates activities related to the creation, maintenance, and development of infrastructure supporting Open Access. It also promotes Open Access and provides guidance on best practices consistent with the Open Access policy.