Economic Forum journal is an open-access publication, which means that all its content is freely available to all readers worldwide, regardless of their location or organisational restrictions. This enables unrestricted access to the scientific articles published in the journal, without any financial costs or subscriptions required from users. All articles published in the journal are available for free reading, downloading, distribution, and use.
Access rights
As Economic Forum journal operates under an open-access model, all materials published in it are freely available and will always be accessible to readers without any restrictions. This means that all articles can be freely downloaded, read, shared, and used, provided the appropriate licensing terms are followed. The absence of access fees ensures that all users, including academic institutions, libraries, researchers, and the general public with an interest in the publications, have free access to the content.
User rights
Economic Forum journal uses the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence to define the rights of users. This means that users are free to copy, quote, adapt, and rework the published articles, as well as create new works based on them, such as extracts, reviews, comments, or further studies.
The primary condition is that users must provide proper attribution to the source, specify the licence, indicate if any changes have been made to the original, and clarify that the publication has not been endorsed by the author as supporting the use of the material in its modified form. This usage policy allows for the broad dissemination of scientific knowledge and encourages innovation across various fields.
Author rights
Authors retain the copyright to their scientific works and have the right to use the results of their research for scholarly purposes. At the same time, the Economic Forum journal obtains the rights to publish and distribute the articles, which ensures their availability through the journal's platform and other academic and scholarly networks.
This approach ensures that authors maintain their rights to their publications while also benefiting from the advantages offered by open access. Authors have the opportunity to freely share their works in other contexts while retaining full rights to their use.
Archive and full-text access
The journal provides access to full-text versions of scientific articles through a dedicated Archive section on its website. This allows readers and researchers to view the articles, publish them on other academic platforms, or use them in their own scientific projects, while maintaining the scholarly and authorial value.
The journal’s open-access policy fully complies with the Budapest Open Access Initiative's (BOAI) definition of Open Access, which calls for free and unrestricted access to scientific materials in order to support scientific progress and ensure greater availability of scientific knowledge for the global community.
