Open Access Policy

OA Policy

All research articles published in BAJ journal are fully open access: immediately freely available to read, download and share. Articles are published under the terms of a CC BY-SA 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

The author(s) and copyright holder(s) grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship, as well as the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use.

A complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission as stated above, in a suitable standard electronic format is deposited immediately upon initial publication in at least one online repository that is supported by an academic institution, scholarly society, government agency, or other well-established organization that seeks to enable open access, unrestricted distribution, interoperability, and long-term archiving (in Podlaska Digital Library, the University of Białystok’s Repository and other platforms).

Authors who choose to publish under an open access licence and pay to have their paper freely available online are also entitled to deposit the final published version of the article into an institutional or centrally organized subject repository, immediately upon publication. This is provided that they include a link to the published version of the article on the journal's website, and that the journal and OUP are attributed as the original place of publication, with correct citations given.

This licence allows users to download and share the article for non-commercial purposes, so long as the article is reproduced in the whole without changes, and the original authorship is acknowledged. All Creative Commons licences state that the author’s moral rights are in no way affected by the licence terms.