Editorial Policy
GENERAL PROVISIONS
ARCHIVING
DATA REPLICATION POLICY
OPEN ACCESS POLICY
The Editorial policy of the ‘Journal of the Institute for African Studies” is aimed at maintaining a high academic reputation of the Journal and ensuring the quality of scientific publications. The Editorial Office of the Journal is careful about the author’s position and the respect of the copyright.
The Editorial Office of the Journal is committed to the principles of information openness and transparency: all important information about the requirements for scientific publications, the review process, ethical aspects and the Editorial Board is publicly available on the website of the Journal.
In its work, the Editorial Office of the Journal takes into account the experience of leading Russian and international journals and publishers in the social sciences.
Information about all articles published in the Journal is archived in the Scientific Electronic Library eLIBRARY.ru. Direct link to the Journal archive: https://elibrary.ru/title_about_new.asp?id=33390. ELibrary.ru allows an advanced search of the Journal articles (by keywords, author, title, section). The link to the full text of the article is indicated on the page of the article in the Scientific Electronic Library eLIBRARY.ru.
All articles of the Journal are also archived on the CyberLeninka Scientific Electronic Library Portal (https://cyberleninka.ru/journal/n/uchenye-zapiski-instituta-afriki-ran?i=1141864).
The full texts of the articles are stored on the server of the Journal. They can be accessed through this page (http://africajournal.ru/en/archive/).
Hard copies of the Journal issues are transferred for permanent archiving to the Russian Book Chamber – ITAR-TASS branch, the Russian State Library and other leading libraries of the Russian Federation.
The editors of the Journal consider the Data Replication Policy to be an important element of scientific ethics. In this regard, the necessary conditions are created so that the calculations performed by the authors of the article could be replicated (reproduced) by the readers of the Journal.
Authors of articles containing calculations may be requested to provide the raw data related to the manuscript for review. Authors should be ready to provide open access to this information and store this data for an appropriate period of time after publication.
When publishing articles in the ‘Journal of the Institute for African Studies’, both permanent and ad hoc databases are welcomed, the results of which are interpreted in the articles. As a repository, authors are recommended to use a specialized section of the portal of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (https://data.inafran.ru), created for hosting databases on African topics. At the same time, it is possible to host databases on other repositories at the discretion of the author.
This journal is an open access journal. All articles are made freely available to readers immediately upon publication. Our open access policy is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition – it means that articles have 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. For more information please read BOAI statement.
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Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
Notices:
You do not have to comply with the license for elements of the material in the public domain or where your use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation.
No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material.
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