Open Access Policy

1. Open access model

The Bulletin of the Lviv State University of Life Safety is an open-access scholarly journal. All published materials are freely available to readers and their institutions.

2. Article Processing Charge (APC)

Reader access to published content is free of charge (open access).
The journal does not charge fees for manuscript submission or peer review.
A publication fee applies only after acceptance. Details (amount and procedure) are provided on the Payment Policy (Publication Fee) page (45 UAH per page; bank transfer).

Editorial decisions are based on peer review and editorial assessment and are not influenced by payment.

3. Access rights

Published materials are permanently available for reading, downloading, copying, and sharing in accordance with the license terms.

4. User rights (third-party reuse)

Third-party reuse is governed by the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Under this license, users may copy, share, adapt (create derivative works), and use the materials for commercial purposes, provided that they:

  • give appropriate credit to the author(s);

  • cite the original publication and, where available, the DOI;

  • provide a link to the license;

  • indicate whether changes were made.

Reuse must not imply endorsement by the author(s) or the journal.

CC BY 4.0 applies to the article content unless otherwise stated. Third-party materials (e.g., specific figures/tables) may be subject to different reuse terms; such cases are indicated in the caption/credit line.

5. Author rights

Authors retain copyright of their work and grant the journal the right of first publication. The published work is made available under CC BY 4.0, allowing others to distribute and reuse the work with proper attribution and citation of the first publication in this journal.

6. Self-archiving and redistribution

Authors may distribute the published version non-exclusively (e.g., via an institutional repository or within a monograph), provided that the first publication in this journal is properly cited (bibliographic citation and/or a link to the official article page, and the DOI where available).

7. Access to full texts

Full texts are available in the Archive section on the journal website.

8. Alignment with open access principles

The journal’s policy is consistent with the definition of open access established by the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI).

9. Data Sharing and Reproducibility

The journal supports research transparency and encourages authors to make underlying data and research materials available whenever possible.

9.1. Data Availability Statement

Where applicable, the author(s) should include in the manuscript or in the accompanying materials a Data Availability Statement that specifies:

  • where the data/materials are available (repository, URL/DOI, link); or

  • a clear justification if the data cannot be made openly available (confidentiality, contractual restrictions, ethical requirements, etc.).

9.2. Recommended Practice

Authors are encouraged to use reliable institutional or subject-specific repositories and to provide persistent identifiers (DOI/URL) where available.

9.3. Confidential or Sensitive Data

If open access to data is not possible, the author(s) should:

  • describe the nature of the restrictions;

  • where possible, provide anonymized/aggregated data or a minimal dataset, where ethically and legally feasible.

9.4. Editorial Requests

The editorial office may request additional materials (raw data, protocols) to verify the reliability of the results. Failure to provide them without a justified reason may affect the editorial decision.

9.5. Data and Code Citation

If data are publicly available, they should be properly cited in the manuscript and/or in the reference list, including the DOI/URL.