Copyright & Licensing

The Ukrainian Journal of Constitutional Law follows an open access model in which authors retain copyright in their publications.

1. Copyright Holder

The author(s) retain copyright in their article.

Publication in the Journal does not constitute a transfer of copyright to the Publisher. Copyright remains with the author or authors, subject to applicable law and to any rights relating to third-party materials.

Publisher:

UKRAINIAN JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW EDITORIAL MAGAZINE, LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (UKRAINIAN JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW EDITORIAL MAGAZINE, LLC)
79018, Ukraine, Lviv, Storozhenka Street, 12, Office 501

2. Rights Granted to the Publisher

Upon submission of a manuscript, the author(s) grant the Publisher the non-exclusive rights necessary for first publication and dissemination of the work.

These rights include the right to:

  • publish the article for the first time in the Journal;
  • reproduce and distribute the published article in print and electronic formats;
  • make the article available on the official Journal website;
  • include the article in the Journal’s electronic and print archives;
  • disseminate bibliographic and full-text metadata through DOI, Crossref, bibliographic catalogues and repositories used by the Journal;
  • technically format, edit and prepare the article for publication without altering its scholarly substance.

These rights do not constitute a transfer of copyright and do not prevent authors from using, archiving, distributing or otherwise reusing their own work in accordance with applicable law and the CC BY 4.0 licence.

3. Creative Commons Licence

Articles published under this open access policy are made available under the following international licence:


Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

The CC BY 4.0 licence allows others to:

  • read and download the article;
  • copy and redistribute it in any format;
  • create adaptations, translations and other derivative materials;
  • use the material for commercial as well as non-commercial purposes.

These uses are permitted subject to the terms of the licence, including appropriate attribution, a link to the licence and an indication of changes where applicable.

4. Recommended Attribution

When reusing material under CC BY 4.0, users should, where reasonably practicable, identify:

  • the author or authors;
  • the title of the article;
  • the Ukrainian Journal of Constitutional Law as the original publication source;
  • the article DOI;
  • the CC BY 4.0 licence and a link to its official page;
  • any changes made to the original material.

The exact format of attribution may vary depending on the medium and context of reuse, but it must not imply endorsement by the author or the Journal where no such endorsement exists.

5. Third-Party Materials

The CC BY 4.0 licence applies to material for which the author(s) hold the relevant rights and which may lawfully be included in the publication under that licence.

Individual third-party materials – including photographs, figures, tables, documents, text excerpts or other content for which the author does not hold the relevant rights – may be:

  • excluded from the scope of CC BY 4.0;
  • used under a separate permission or licence;
  • used under an applicable copyright exception or limitation.

Where possible, such materials should be clearly identified in the relevant article. The terms governing third-party material may differ from the licence applicable to the article as a whole.

6. Author Self-Archiving

Because authors retain copyright and publications are made available under CC BY 4.0, authors may deposit their work in institutional or subject repositories and other lawful digital platforms.

Authors may deposit:

  • the preprint;
  • the Author’s Accepted Manuscript;
  • the published Version of Record.

When self-archiving, authors are encouraged to preserve the full bibliographic information of the original publication, the Journal title and the DOI.

7. Copyright in the Journal Website

Copyright in individual articles should not be confused with rights in the Journal website as a whole.

The Journal logo, website design, interface elements, software code and other website materials may be subject to separate rights and are not automatically licensed under CC BY 4.0 merely because individual articles are published under that licence.

8. Manuscript Submission and Author Agreement

When submitting a manuscript electronically, the author(s) confirm, among other things:

  • the right to submit the manuscript to the Journal;
  • their authorship or sufficient rights to submit the material;
  • the agreement of all co-authors to submission and publication where the article has multiple authors;
  • that the same manuscript is not being simultaneously submitted elsewhere;
  • agreement with the Journal’s publication and licensing conditions.

Submission of a manuscript does not transfer copyright to the Publisher.

9. Separate Language Versions and Translations

Where the same scholarly work is published by the Journal in two separate language versions, each published version constitutes a separate publication record with its own DOI.

The translated version must also have an appropriate open licensing status. Corresponding bibliographic and DOI metadata may include a relationship between the original and translated publication versions.

10. Related Documents

Copyright and licensing should be read together with:

Core principle: authors retain copyright; the Publisher receives the necessary non-exclusive rights for first publication and publishing dissemination; and readers and other users receive reuse rights under the CC BY 4.0 licence.