Open Access Policy

Visnyk of Lviv State University of Life Safety is an open-access scientific journal, providing free access to all published materials for readers and their institutions. The journal does not charge any fees for open access.

Access Rights

All materials published in open access are permanently available for reading, downloading, copying, and further distribution.

User Rights

The use of materials by third parties is governed by the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license:

This license allows users to copy, create derivative works, summaries, and use materials for commercial purposes (including reuse and/or resale by commercial entities) provided they give appropriate credit to the author, link to the original publication via the relevant DOI, provide a link to the license, and indicate any changes made. The licensor must not be represented as endorsing the way the work is used. The full text of the license is available at:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Author Rights

Authors publishing in this collection of scientific papers agree to the following terms:

1. Authors retain the copyright of their work and grant the journal the right to first publication of the work, which will be made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike International BY-SA license. This allows others to freely distribute the published work, with proper attribution to the authors of the original work and the first publication in this scientific journal.

2. Authors have the right to non-exclusive distribution of the work in the form it was published in the journal (e.g., posting the work in the institution’s electronicrepository or publishing it as part of a monograph), provided that a reference to the first publication of the work in this journal is retained.

Authors retain the right, without the approval of the editorial board and the founders, to:

1. Use the article materials, in whole or in part, for educational or scientific purposes.

2. Use the article materials, in whole or in part, for writing their own dissertations.

3. Use the article materials for preparing conference abstracts, presentations, and oral reports.

4. Post electronic copies of the article (including the final electronic version downloaded from the official website of the journal) on:

- Personal web resources of all authors (websites, webpages, blogs, etc.);

- Web resources of the institutions where the authors work (including institutional repositories);

- Non-commercial open-access web resources.

In all cases, the inclusion of a bibliographic reference to the article or a hyperlink to its electronic copy on the official website of the journal is mandatory.

Full texts of scientific publications from the journal are available in the Archive section 

This complies with the definition of open access established by the Budapest Open Access Initiative