Open Access Policy

The RPE adheres to an open access policy to the published material. The RPE Editorial Board recognizes the priority of the principles of free dissemination of scientific information, knowledge exchange and entirely excludes national, racial, religious, political or other types of restrictions on paper publication.

The Editorial Board supports the Science Europe association's "Plan S" (https://www.scienceeurope.org/our-priorities/open-access/) initiative to publish research results in open access journals licensed by the CC BY.

According to the instructions of Budapest Open Access Initiative BOAI (Budapest Open Access Initiative – http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org), under "open access" to the peer-reviewed scientific literature we mean its free availability through the public internet and the right of each user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, make references to full-text articles, or use it for any other lawful purpose in the absence of financial, legal, or technical barriers, with the exception of those that regulate access to the Internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution and the only role for copyright in this regard should be the authors’ right to control the integrity of their work and be properly acknowledged and cited.