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Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. The journal distributes its articles under the terms of the Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
The copyright holder of a scholarly work grants usage rights to others using an open license (Creative Commons) allowing for immediate free access to the work and permitting any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose.
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1. The submitted work is original, has not been sent for publication in other publications and has not been published in any form other than abstract, short report or doctoral dissertation,
2. In the event of violation of third party copyrights, the Author assumes responsibility for the fact that these persons will not assert any claims from the Publisher in this respect, and in the event of any obligations arising from this on the part of the Publisher, I undertake to release the Publisher from these obligations, in particular by paying the Publisher an amount corresponding to the amount of these obligations,
3. The author undertakes that in the event that any property or personal copyrights to the Work or the right to derivative works belong to third parties, I will cause that all such third parties shall immediately and without remuneration also grant the Publisher's license or its legal successors to the extent described in this statement,
4. The author grants the Publisher permission to use and distribute all derivative works in relation to the work within the scope of this statement.
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- recording in any manner and reproduction in whole or in part by producing copies by any technique (including printing, magnetic and digital recording),
- trade in the original or copies
- dissemination by making them publicly available in such a way that each user can have access to them at the time and place of their choice.
6. The Author authorizes the Publisher to make editorial corrections on the Publisher or on his behalf.
7. The author accepts the copyright note: Copyright © The Authors, [year]. Publisher: John Paul II University in Biała Podlaska
8. The author agrees to change the format of the document in which the Work was originally saved, without changing its content, to the extent justified by using the Work.
Peer Review Process
All works are reviewed by specialists from outside the authors' mother organisation, adhering to the principle of mutual anonymity, the so-called double-blind-review process.
The submitted article undergoes a formal assessment process and post initial assessment it is submitted for conceptual assessment (REVIEW FORM ERS_SEiR.pdf) which takes up to 6 weeks (2 weeks on average). During the selection of a reviewer there cannot be the conflict of interests which is understood as relations occurring between the reviewer and the author:
- direct personal relations (blood relation, legal relationships, conflict),
- relation of work subordination,
- direct scientific cooperation within previous two years proceeding the preparation of a review.
The author may indicate the name of potential reviewer, however, the Editorial Office reserves the right to make a decision regarding such selection.
The review has a written form (review form) and ends with a clear conclusion:
- accept without changes
- accept after changes suggested by reviewer
- rate manuscript once again major changes and another review
- reject
Correction or proofreading the text in Polish should be performed immediately and no longer than within 1 week. Subsequently the editorial office decides about further fate of the given work. The work may be directed for translation or rejection.
The Editor-in-Chief reserves the right to reject a paper which is not consistent with the journal profile; does not meet the requirements imposed on scientific papers; has received negative scientific reviews; does not follow the instructions on submitting and preparing articles; has not been corrected in accordance with the directions of the Editor or the reviewers; bears attributes of plagiarism. The final decision on accepting a paper for publication or rejecting it is always taken by the Editor-in-Chief.
Decision of the Editorial Office is final. The Editorial Office does not return the manuscripts.
Names of reviewers of individual publications/issues are not disclosed; once a year the journal publically announces the list of cooperating reviewers
Business Model/ Article processing charges
- Articles for publication should be sent through Editorial system: https://www.editorial system.com/.editor/ersen/.
- In the case of difficulty, works proposed for publication may be sent to the journal secretary via e-mail: a.filipiuk@akademiabialska.pl
- Author receives confirmation of submission.
- After formal checking and plagiarism testing tha paper is sent to two reviewers adhering to the principle of mutual anonymity, the so-called double-blind-review process.
- Author is informed of the reviewer's opinion. Commonly he is asked to make improvements of his work. After the second stage of the review process, Author is informed on the decision concerning publishing or refusing publication of its work.
- Journal doesn't charge any fees for publishing articles in two languages: English and Polish.
- Article are translated free of charge into Polish or Englis.
- Articles are published in the journal both in electronic and paper versions and are distributed under the terms of licence: CC BY 4.0. Author retains its copyright in both versions and in all stages of editing and publishing stages.
- Author may deposit a copy of its published work in any institutional or other repository of their choice.
- The access to the contents of the published electronic version of the journal is free of any charges on the following platforms: (http://www.ers.edu.pl/en ; https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/ers/ers-overview.xml?tab_body=overview ; http://www.akademiabialska.pl/index.php/pl/wydawnictwo)
- All authors receive, free of charge, one issue of the journal from the volume where their article are published.
- Remaining print issues of the journal are deposited by the publisher and distributed on the cost of 10 Euro including post, or 30 PLN inside the country.
The editors consider retractions, corrections or expressions of concern in line with COPE’s Retraction Guidelines. Any publication found to include fraudulent results will be retracted, or an appropriate correction or expression of concern will be issued.
Redakcja umożliwia wycofanie artykułu lub publikację korekty, zgodnie z wytycznymi COPE w tym względzie. Każda publikacja zawierająca błędne lub fałszywe wyniki zostanie wycofana bądź też opublikowana zostanie odpowiednia korekta.
Policies for research on human
When reporting experiments on human subjects, authors should indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 (concerning the ethical principles for the medical community and forbidding releasing the name of the patient, initials or the hospital evidence number) and with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national). The authors presenting case studies are obligated not to disclose personal data. The manuscript should contain a statement that the work has been approved by the relevant institutional or committees and that all human participants gave informed consent. If the work involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the authors must clearly identify these in the manuscript.
Policies for research on vulnerable populations
Vulnerable populations, for example children, older persons or adults with learning disabilities, require special protection during research.Researchers need to consider additional ethics concerns or issues arising from working with potentially vulnerable persons. In cases where research involves potentially vulnerable groups, every effort should be made to secure freely given informed consent that participants or their legal representatives have actively provided.
Copyrights
The scientific journal "Economic and Regional Studies / Studia Ekonomiczne i Regionalne" up to issue 2/2021 (vol. 14) published articles under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International CC BY-NC-SA) using the notation "Copyright: © Pope John Paul II State School of Higher Education in Biała Podlaska, name of the author(s). All articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence, permitting third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, and to remix, transform and exploit the material, provided the original work is properly cited and the licence is stated", while from issue 3/2021 (vol. 14) the articles appear under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International CC BY 4.0 licence with the following attribution: "Copyright: © The Authors. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence, permitting third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform and exploit the material for any purpose, even commercially".
Open Access Statement
The journal is an Open Access journal that allows a free unlimited access to all its contents without any restrictions upon publication to all users.