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If the article is accepted for publication in the Political Science and Security Studies Journal the author must sign an agreement on the transfer of copyright. The agreement is sent to the postal (original) or e-mail address (scanned copy) of the journal editions.

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By this agreement, the author certifies that the submitted material:

  • does not infringe the copyright of other persons or organizations;
  • was not previously published in other publishing houses and has not been submitted for publication in other editions.

The author passes the editorial board of the  Political Science and Security Studies Journal rights to:

  • publication of the article in English language and distribution of its printed copy.

The author reserves the right without the consent of the editorial board and founders:

  1. Use the materials of the article in whole or in part for educational purposes.
  2. Use the materials of the article in whole or in part to write their own dissertations.
  3. Use the materials of the article for the preparation of abstracts, conference reports, as well as oral presentations.
  4. Place electronic copies of the article (including the final electronic copy downloaded from the official web-site of the journal) to:
  • personal web-resources of all authors (web-sites, web-pages, blogs, etc.);
  • web-resources of institutions where authors work (including electronic institutional repositories);
  • non-commercial web-resources of open access (for example, arXiv.org).

In all cases, the availability of a bibliographic link to an article or hyperlink to its electronic copy on the official website of the journal is compulsory.