The journal «Texts and History» is an open access publication. The journal does not charge authors for publication and its distribution, reviewing, editing of materials. The journal does not pay royalties to the authors of articles for their publication.

The Open Access Policy of the journal is developed in accordance with the definition of Open Access formulated in the BOAI Budapest Initiative: all the content of the journal is open on the Internet for reading, downloading, replication, any users can search or refer to the full text of articles. The Journal of Literature and History provides open access to its content on the basis that the free dissemination of research contributes to the wider exchange of knowledge at the global level.

Articles of the Journal of Literature and History are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivs licence 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode). This licence entitles users to read, copy and distribute the publication in any medium and in any format, provided this is done for non-commercial purposes and provided the authors of the publication are properly credited. The Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence does not entitle the user to transform the material protected by the licence or to redistribute the transformed material.

Copyright information

The Editorial Board of the Journal «Texts and History» does not accept texts that are under review in another journal. Authors must guarantee that they have not published the essential results of their research in any other scientific publication. The only exception concerns translations of articles into foreign languages: translation into Russian from other foreign languages of articles already published or prepared for publication is allowed.

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

After publication of an article in the journal «Texts and History», authors retain the right to:

  • 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, to post the article on a personal page, both on their personal website and on the website of the organisation where the author works;
  • use individual materials from the published article in the preparation of other publications, including books, educational and methodological editions;
  • replicate the article for own research purposes, not related to commercial profit.

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

  • The right to reproduce the article or its separate part in any material form, including paper and electronic media in the form of a separate work, as part of the journal(s) and/or in the databases of the publisher and/or others, at the discretion of the publisher;
  • The right to distribute the article or a separate part thereof in any medium as a separate work, as part of the journal(s) and/or in the databases of the publisher or other persons, at the discretion of the publisher and/or the founders of the journal;
  • The right to make the article or a separate part thereof available to the public with the possibility for any person to access the article from any place and at any time at his/her own discretion (including via the Internet).

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

Obligations of the editorial board with regard to conflict of interest

A conflict of interest arises when an author, reviewer or editor has a financial or personal relationship that interferes with the impartial perception, review, decision to publish the research (dual obligations, competing interests or beliefs). Interests can be financial or personal. A conflict of interest arises in a relationship with an organisation or another person.

The Journal of “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 journal’s editorial board, the author declares that:

  • all sources of funding for the research are identified in the body of the article;
  • there are no commercial, financial, personal, or professional factors that could create a conflict of interest with respect to the submitted article.

Otherwise, the author should make an explicit statement about the possible conflict of interest in the text of the cover letter when submitting the article for consideration by the editorial board. In addition, if there is a conflict of interest, 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 the article: they should declare a potential conflict of interest that could influence the decision of the Editorial Board.

The article should be evaluated in an unbiased manner. The presence of a conflict of interest explicitly declared by any of the participants in the review process should not in itself lead to a refusal to publish. The most important criterion in the evaluation of a manuscript is its scientific quality.

Authors must sign a Licence Agreement before publication in the journal. Please read the Journal’s guidelines for authors for detailed information on the details of the Journal’s Licence Agreement.