The journal "Kraieznavstvo" adheres to an open access policy in accordance with the definition of open access provided by the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). The journal prioritizes the principles of free dissemination of scientific information and knowledge exchange for global societal progress. Users are allowed to freely read, download, and copy journal articles for educational and scientific purposes, as well as distribute them with mandatory attribution to the authors.

"Kraieznavstvo" operates under the Creative Commons Attribution  International CC-BY, which allows reading, downloading, copying, distributing, printing, searching, citing, or linking to the full text of articles in this scientific publication.

OPEN DATA AND RESEARCH MATERIALS POLICY

The journal «Kraieznavstvo» supports the principles of Open Science and adheres to international standards of openness in research data. It encourages authors to provide open access to research materials, provided this does not conflict with the legislation of Ukraine, the conditions of archival institutions, restrictions on personal data, or ethical norms.

Research data are recommended to be published in accordance with the FAIR principles:

• Findable – data should have a unique identifier (DOI);
• Accessible – data should be deposited in an open repository;
• Interoperable – use of standard formats;
• Reusable – data should be reusable with proper citation.

In accordance with the academic profile of the journal «Kraieznavstvo», open data may include:

• lists and descriptions of archival sources;
• digital descriptions of manuscripts;
• corpora of historical texts;
• statistical materials;
• GIS materials (maps, satellite images, databases);
• illustrative appendices;
• biographical or prosopographical data.

Authors may deposit datasets in:

• institutional repositories of higher education institutions;
• national scientific repositories;
• international platforms (e.g., Zenodo, Figshare, OSF);
• specialized historical digital archives.

A dataset must have a registered DOI.

Data presentation in the article

If open data are available:

• the dataset DOI must be indicated in the text of the article;
• the DOI must be included in the publication metadata;
• a link to the repository must be provided in the «Sources and Materials» section or in the «Data Availability Statement».

If access to the data is restricted (due to archival limitations, personal data, etc.), the author must indicate the reason for the restriction.