Repository Policy
The journal “Municipality: Economy and Management” adheres to the Platinum Open Access policy, including allowing and even recommending that authors place their articles accepted for publication on their own personal websites or in other repositories (ResearchGate, institutional repositories) both before and after the publication of the article, indicating in the bibliographic description a link to the publication of the final version of the article in this journal and DOI. The journal adheres to the Free Self-Archiving policy.
What and when can be self-archived by authors
- preprint and review version — at any time;
- version of the article accepted for publication — after official notification from the journal's editors about the acceptance of the article for publication;
- final version — after the article is published as part of the issue on the journal's website.
Creative Commons and other licenses
Authors may publish (self-archive) preprints and peer-reviewed versions of manuscripts under any license they choose. We recommend Creative Commons CC-BY or any other Creative Commons family license.
Accepted versions of articles may be published under the terms of the open Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND license or its equivalent, but not a more permissive version. We do not permit accepted versions of articles to be published under such permissive terms as, for example, the Creative Commons CC-BY license.
Accepted versions of articles may be published under the terms of the open Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND license or its equivalent, but not a more permissive version. We do not permit accepted versions of articles to be published under such permissive terms as, for example, the Creative Commons CC-BY license.
Third Party Materials
Before publishing online (self-archiving), authors should ensure that they have all necessary rights and permissions to publish all components of the article. When publishing (self-archiving) an article under the terms of a Creative Commons license, the author must have the rights to place all borrowed elements in the published article under the corresponding license. The copyright holders of the borrowed elements of the published article must always be clearly indicated, as well as information that the use of these elements of the article without separate permission from the copyright holders is impossible.
Closed Repositories and Embargo Period
Articles can be placed in closed repositories both before and after official publication on the journal's website. A closed repository is one in which only the administrators of the repository's website have access to the content.
Article descriptions (titles, abstracts, author information, and links) can be made available both before and after the article is published as part of an issue on the journal's website. Full texts of final versions of articles can be made available on third-party websites with the obligatory indication of a link to the publication on the journal's website (including via DOI).
Article descriptions (titles, abstracts, author information, and links) can be made available both before and after the article is published as part of an issue on the journal's website. Full texts of final versions of articles can be made available on third-party websites with the obligatory indication of a link to the publication on the journal's website (including via DOI).
Placing Content in Repositories
The editors of the journal "Municipality: Economics and Management" allow and even recommend that authors post versions of articles accepted for publication (preprints) on their pages on the Internet, on the websites of their organizations and public repositories (such as ResearchGate, SSRN, Repec, etc.). After the article is published, the editors require that authors provide a link to the final version of the article on the journal's website.
We require that when posting articles in third-party repositories, the following information be provided:
We require that when posting articles in third-party repositories, the following information be provided:
- if the article has not yet been published — a clear statement that the manuscript has been accepted for publication or submitted for review, with a link to the journal's website;
- for all published articles — a link to the final version of the article on the journal's website (including via DOI);
- a clear statement of the terms of the license under which the published version of the article is posted.
Citing Articles in Repositories
When citing an accepted version of an article or an earlier version, we ask readers and authors to provide a link to the final version of the article and use the DOI.