Open Access Policy and Archiving
The "Bulletin of Osh State University" is a fully open-access resource. Our articles are available to anyone to read and download for free, with no user log-in or registration required. The journal 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. Readers and authors can freely view and download the electronic versions of the current issue of the journal and archives for previous periods on the journal's website. All publications of the journal in electronic form are distributed free of charge and without restrictions under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
The journal "Bulletin of Osh State University" fulfils the DOAJ definition of open access, which means the full text of all content is available for free and open access without delay:
- No embargo period;
- No requirement for users to register to read content;
- A charge for the print version of a journal is permitted.
For more information, see Copyright and Licensing.
“Open access” means its free availability on the public internet, permitting 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 financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself” (by Budapest Open Access Initiative).
The journal’s website also provides the necessary information for authors and readers about the journal’s activities: publication conditions, rules for registration and submission of manuscripts to the journal, the procedure for forming the journal and reviewing manuscripts, publication ethics, information about the editorial board, contact details of the scientific editor and executive secretary.