End user license agreement

Policy of using the Portal. Open access to publications and all materials of the Portal. Financing

To access the published materials of the Journal's website (full-text content of issues, information about the Journal, members of the editorial board and editorial board, rules for authors and other sections of the site) for reading and copying, the User does not need to register. The User can register as a Reader only voluntarily.

The publisher of scientific journals Peoples' Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University) provides direct open access to the publications in the journals based on the following principle of the Budapest Open Access Initiative: free open access to research results contributes to an increase in the global exchange of knowledge and the progress of science. At the same time, authors are not charged for the publication of articles. The journals are financed by the founder and publisher - Peoples' Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba.

Journal content published since July 2022 is available to users (including authors of published works) under a Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 CC BY-NC 

(CC-BY-NC https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode Attribution - Non-Commercial Version 4.0 International) without registering users (readers) of the site and without paying for access to published materials.

Copying, translating, distributing, and otherwise using the content of journal websites for commercial purposes is possible only with the permission of the Publisher.

Under the terms of the public offer (an agreement between the author and the publisher), the authors remain the owners of exclusive rights to their works, and they can use the articles published in the journal on equal terms with all other users. Authors have the right to download from the journal's website and archive publications of their articles in institutional repositories, post them for non-commercial purposes in thematic full-text databases of scientific publications, provided that they link to the RUDN journal as the original source of the publication.

When quoting and any other use of the materials of the Portal of RUDN scientific journals, users are obliged to refer to the source (the publication, its authors, and the journal site on this Portal). For ease of use, we provide each publication in the journal with a recommendation for the design of the link.

When referring to an article from our journal, it is necessary to indicate the DOI assigned to it.

New issues of journals are posted on the site immediately after being signed for publishing, without embargo.

The article published in journal up to and including June 2022 are posted on the Portal adhere to the open access policy for readers (open license Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 CC-BY    ) without registering users (readers) of the site and without paying for access to published materials.