The journal “Texts and History” is an open access publication. The journal does not charge authors for publishing, distributing, reviewing, and editing materials. The journal does not pay royalties to authors of articles for their publication.

The journal’s open access policy is developed in accordance with the definition of open access formulated in the Budapest Initiative BOAI: all content of the journal is open on the Internet for reading, downloading, replication, and any users can search or refer to the full text of articles. The Journal “Texts and History” provides open access to its content based on the principle that free distribution of researches contributes to greater knowledge sharing on the global level.

Articles of the journal “Texts and History” are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivs license 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0): (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode.en). This license gives users permission to read, copy and distribute the publication in any medium or format, as long as the publication is used non-commercially and provided that proper credit is given to the publication’s authors. The Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 license does not grant user the right to transform material covered by the license or distribute the converted material.

Copyright information

The editorial board of the journal “Texts and History” does not accept texts that are under consideration in another journal. Authors must ensure that they have not published significant results of their research in any other scientific publication. The only exception concerns translations of articles into foreign languages: translation of articles already published or prepared for publication from other foreign languages into Russian is allowed.

In the case of collective authorship, each author guarantees that co-authors approved the final version of the article and agreed with the submission for publication. Authors of articles are responsible for obtaining permission to publish illustrative materials.

After publishing an article in the journal “Texts and History”, authors reserve the right to:

  • use printed or electronic copies of the article for scientific or educational purposes, including distributing the article among students and colleagues to promote scientific research, for information purposes, post the article on a personal page, both on a personal website and on the website of the organization where the author works;
  • use selected materials from the published article in the preparation of other publications, including books, educational and methodological publications;
  • distribute the article for their own research purposes not related to commercial gain.

By submitting an article for publication in the journal “Texts and History”, authors agree to transfer the following rights to the journal publisher:

  • the right to reproduce the article or any part thereof in any material form, including on paper and electronic media in the form of a separate work, as part of a journal(s) and/or in the databases of the publisher and/or other persons, at the discretion of the publisher;
  • the right to distribute an article or a part thereof on any medium in the form of a separate work, as part of a journal(s) and/or in the databases of the publisher or other persons at the discretion of the publisher and/or founders of the journal;
  • the right to bring an article or any part thereof to the public with the opportunity for any person to access the article from any place and at any time of their own choice (including via the Internet).

The selection of materials for publication in the journal is not influenced by any political, commercial or any other non-scientific factors; the only selection criterion is the scientific quality of the submitted materials.

Editorial obligations regarding conflicts of interests

A conflict of interest arises when an author, reviewer, or editor has financial or personal relations that interfere with the impartial perception, review, or decision to publish research findings (dual commitments, competing interests, or beliefs). Interests may be financial or personal. A conflict of interest arises in the relationship with an organization or another person.

The Journal “Texts and History” does not require a formal declaration of conflict of interest. However, it is assumed that when submitting an article for consideration by the editorial board of the journal, the author declares that:

  • the text of the article indicates all sources of funding for the study;
  • There are no commercial, financial, personal or professional factors that could result into a conflict of interests in relation to the submitted article.

Otherwise, the author must make an explicit statement about a possible conflict of interests in the text of the cover letter when submitting the article for consideration by the editorial board. In addition, if a conflict of interests exists, the author may request that a particular editor and/or reviewer be excluded from consideration of the submitted article.

The same obligations should apply to editors and reviewers working on an article: they must declare a potential conflict of interests that could influence the decision of the editorial board.

The article must be evaluated without bias. The presence of the conflict of interest, which is explicitly declared by any of the participants in the review process, should not in itself lead to rejection in publication. The most important criterion when evaluating a manuscript is its scientific quality.

Authors must sign a License Agreement before publication in the journal. Please see the journal’s guidelines for authors for detailed information about the Journal’s License Agreement.