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, also after the publication of their paper.

Archiving

Authors are permitted to post their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories, on academia.edu, researchgate.net or on their own website) only in the version made available by the publisher and only after it has been published in this journal (see publisher's policy: Jisc Open policy finder (formerly Sherpa Romeo).

Texts are archived on the OJS platform (CzasKUL) and in the Digital Library of Catholic University of Lublin, and in the KUL Institutional Repository (ReKUL), and in the POLONA digital library, run by the Polish National Library.

OJS platform (CzasKUL) provides journals with the description of the document using metadata, its identification by DOI number and publication of the text as a separate PDF file.

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 Core 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

The texts in Volumes 1-13 are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. 

Beginning with Volume 14/2011, all texts published in Studia z Prawa Wyznaniowego are available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence.

Open Access  

Studia z Prawa Wyznaniowego is an open access journal (Diamond Open Access). All content is freely available without charge or subscription. 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.

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.

Studia z Prawa Wyznaniowego is indexed in Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals published in line with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI).