OPEN ACCESS POLICY

RAD Journal is an Open Access Journal, which means that all content is freely available online, immediately upon publication, without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author, under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

RAD Journal has no Article Submission Charge (ASC).

APC has to be paid by bank transfer based on the proforma invoice provided by the Publisher. All bank charges for the money transfer services must be paid by the authors. There is no possibility to wave the APC or decrease its amount.

Self-archiving Policy

The journal RAD Journal allows authors to deposit author's pre-print and/or post-print (accepted version) and/or Publisher’s PDF in an institutional repository and non-commercial subject-based repositories, such as PubMed Central, Europe PMC or arXiv or to publish it on author's personal website (including social networking sites, such as ResearchGate, Academia.edu, etc.) and/or departmental website, at any time after publication (pre-print is the version of the paper before peer review and post-print is the version of the paper after peer-review, with revisions having been made). Full bibliographic information (authors, article title, journal title, volume, issue, pages) about the original publication must be provided and a link must be made to the article's DOI.

Copyright and Licensing

Authors retain copyright of the published papers and grant to the publisher the non-exclusive right to publish the article, to be cited as its original publisher in case of reuse, and to distribute it in all forms and media.

The published articles will be distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

Anyone is free to:

Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format

Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms. Sharing and adapting can be done under the following terms:

Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Authors may enter separate, additional contractual arrangements for non-exclusive distribution of the Journal published paper (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this Journal.

The authors and third parties who wish to use the article in a way not covered by the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) must obtain a written consent of the publisher.