Open Access Policy

Visnyk of the Lviv University. Series Geology operates under a Diamond Open Access model: all articles and issues are freely accessible to both authors and readers.

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Key Principles:

  • Free access to all materials – full-text articles can be read, downloaded, copied, shared, and printed without restrictions.

  • Free use for academic purposes – journal materials may be used in personal research, teaching courses, and presentations, provided proper citation of the original article is given.

  • License – all materials are published under the Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY 4.0) license, allowing citation, sharing, and commercial use with mandatory attribution to the authors.

  • Copyright – authors retain full rights to their articles and may deposit the final published version or the accepted manuscript in any repository.

Access to the Archive
Full-text access to all published articles is provided immediately upon issue release and is available in the Archives section of the journal’s website.

This policy fully complies with the BOAI definition of Open Access and is compatible with most international standards for open access and scholarly material archiving.

Archiving and Long-Term Preservation Policy

The journal ensures reliable and long-term preservation of all published materials in accordance with international digital archiving standards.

To safeguard scientific content:

all journal issues are archived in the V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine;

articles are deposited in the institutional repositories of universities collaborating with the authors;

the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform is used, supporting Open Access and meeting modern digital archiving standards.

Each published article:

is permanently available on the journal website without time limitations;

has a unique DOI (Digital Object Identifier), ensuring stable and long-term access.

Self-Archiving Policy

The journal supports the principles of open science and allows authors to self-archive their publications without any time restrictions (no embargo period).

Authors have the right to deposit:

  • the accepted manuscript (accepted version);
  • the final published version of the article (publisher’s version)

in the following resources:

  • institutional and national repositories;
  • university digital libraries;
  • personal websites of the authors;
  • academic social networks, such as ResearchGate.

When reposting materials, authors must provide a full bibliographic reference to the published article in the journal, including its DOI.

Open Data Policy

The journal encourages authors to deposit all data supporting the results of their research in open repositories (institutional, national, or international), in line with FAIR principles. A DOI or other persistent data identifier should be provided in the article metadata and/or in the Data Availability section.