“Rossica. Literary Contacts & Connections”
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The journal Rossica. Literary Contacts & Connections is published on an open access basis under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, that is located on the official website of the non-commercial cooperation Creative Commons: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.
This means that users may copy and distribute the work in any medium or format, adapt and transform texts, use the content for any purposes, including commercial ones. Doing this, they are required to respect the terms of use by indicating the name of the author of the original work as well as the source. The users should indicate the journal’s publishing data, provide a link to the source, and point at any changes made. This in no way implies that the licensor (the Editorial Board) endorses you or the way you are using the data.
Rossica. Literary Contacts & Connections is peer-reviewed Open Access journal. The journal does not charge authors for reviewing, editing, publishing, and distributing the published article.
By submitting the article, the authors warrant that:
the article is original, written by the indicated authors;
has not been hitherto published and is not under review in any other edition;
does not contain materials that are not liable to be published in the open access, according to the legislation of Russian Federation;
is subject to copyright that is vested exclusively in the indicated authors and free of any third party rights;
any necessary written permissions to quote from other sources have been obtained.
If the article was prepared jointly with other authors, the corresponding author, when submitting the article, guarantees that he/she has been authorized by all the co-authors to submit the article to Rossica. Literary Contacts & Connections on their behalf.
Submitting the article to the Rossica. Literary Contacts & Connections, the authors agree that the journal does not pay royalties for the publication of the article.
After the publication of the article in Rossica. Literary Contacts & Connections, the authors retain the following rights:
the right to use the article in their future works, including books, textbooks, and manuals;
the right to use print and electronic copies of the article for research, educational and other purpose, to circulate the article among students and colleagues for the promotion of their academic research.
The authors expressively acknowledge and accept that they shall be entitled to no royalty (or any other fee) related to any use of the article submitted to the journal.
By submitting the article to Rossica. Literary Contacts & Connections, the authors grant the journal owner the following rights:
the right to reproduce the whole of the article or any of its parts in any material form including the print and electronic media, in the form of a separate work, as part of the journal and/or the data bases of the publisher and/or other persons at the discretion of the publisher;
the right to distribute the whole of the article or any of its parts in any media, in the form of a separate work, as part of the journal and/or the data bases of the publisher and/or other persons at the discretion of the publisher and the founders of the journal;
the right to give access to the article or its select part granting to anyone interested, from any place and at any time, upon his or her choice (including via the Internet);
the right to sublicense (providing third parties with the right to use the article and its parts, including on commercial terms, thereof obtained in accordance with these terms and conditions).
Conflicting Interests Policy
According to The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), potential conflicts of interest exist when there are financial, personal, or professional interests that might influence on the opinion of the reviewer or publisher and, as a result, affect the decision of the Editorial Board as regards the publication of the article.
The journal Rossica. Literary Contacts & Connections implies that by submitting a paper the author states that:
all forms of financial support are acknowledged in the contribution;
there are no commercial, financial, personal, and professional involvements that might present an appearance of a conflict of interests related to the submitted article.
If there is a conflict of interests, upon submission of a manuscript, authors may suggest excluding any specific reviewer from the peer review of their article.
The same obligations equally apply to editors or reviewers that will handle the paper: they should declare whether they have any conflicts of interests that may influence the editorial decision on its publication.
If there is a conflict of interests of the editor and the reviewer with the author of the article, the manuscript should be transferred, in obligatory order, to another editor or reviewer accordingly.
Articles should be evaluated fairly. The conflict of interests declared by any participant of the editing and reviewing process will not necessarily lead to rejection. The prime criterion in the manuscript’s evaluation is its research quality.
Open access statement
The journal Rossica. Literary Contacts & Connections provides all readers with free access to the journal content that, according to BOAI declaration, “permit[s] any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose” without a preliminary request from the author or publisher. The journal Rossica. Literary Contacts & Connections provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Privacy policy
Accepted for consideration work is a confidential document. The chief editor of the scientific journal and the editorial board employees have no right to disclose the information provided in the article to anyone else, except the author, reviewers, potential reviewers, advisers of editorial board and the publisher.
Information or ideas obtained in case of peer reviewing and the associated with potential benefits must be kept confidential and mustn’t be used for personal gain.
Personal information provided by authors to the journal Rossica. Literary Contacts & Connections including names and e-mail addresses will be used exclusively for the purposes of scholarly publication. The Editorial Board shall not make personal information available for the third party that may use it for other purposes.
Privacy Statement
Personal information provided by authors to the journal Rossica. Literary Contacts & Connections including names and e-mail addresses will be used exclusively for the purposes of scholarly publication. The Editorial Board shall not make personal information available for the third party that may use it for other purposes.
Edition Business Model
Rossica. Literary Contacts & Connections is peer-reviewed open access journal. It means:
- Content created by scientists;
- Publication is free for all authors; authors don’t pay for reviewing, editing, translating, proof-reading, layout design;
- Rossica. Literary Contacts & Connections doesn’t pay author’s fee / royalties;
- No Article Processing Charge for authors, sponsored by founder and publisher;
- Access to all articles in the electronic version of the journal on the Litfakt website is free for all readers after the publication of issues.
Derivation and Plagiarism
During the consideration of an article, the editorial staff of the journal Rossica. Literary Contacts & Connections may conduct a verification of the submitted materials with the help the Anti-plagiarism system. In the case of the discovery of multiple incidents of content matching, the editorial staff acts in accordance with the rules of COPE, https://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts-new/what-do-if-you-suspect-plagiarism.
Preprint and Postprint Policy
During the submission process, the author must confirm that the article has not been published and or accepted for publication in any other journal.
The Author (Co-authors) has a right to use print or electronic preprints of the unpublished manuscript having the form and contents as accepted by the Publisher for publication in the Journal. Such preprints may be posted as electronic files on the website of the Author (Co-authors) or on a secure external website of the employer of the Author (Co-authors) of the Article but should not be used for commercial sale or systematic external distribution by a third party.
The Author (Co-authors) should: 1) include in the Preprint the following warning: “This is a Preprint of the Article accepted for publication in the journal Rossica. Literary Contacts & Connections, (C), copyright (year).”; 2) give an electronic link to the Litfakt website that has a URL http://lfizdat.ru/zhurnal-rossica/
When citing articles published in the journal Rossica. Literary Contacts & Connections we request the authors to provide a link (the full URL of the material) to the Litfakt website.