Open Access Policy, Copyright and Licensing

Scientific Bulletin of Kherson State University. Series “Legal Sciences” adheres to an Open Access policy. All articles are made freely and permanently available immediately upon issue publication. Full-text access to the journal’s scientific articles in real time is provided on the official journal website under the Archives section.

The journal operates under the Creative Commons Attribution International (CC-BY 4.0) license. This allows anyone to:

read, download, copy, distribute, and print the articles;

cite or reference the full text of the article;

use the materials for their own research, educational, or commercial purposes, provided proper attribution to the original work is given.

Authors retain full copyright of their articles and have the right to deposit the final published version or the accepted manuscript in any institutional or subject repository without restrictions.

This policy aligns with the BOAI definition of Open Access. The journal’s licensing policy is compatible with the majority of Open Access and archiving policies.

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.

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.