Open Access Policy, Archiving and Publishing License

Politikon: The IAPSS Journal of Political Science is an open access journal. All content is freely available online immediately upon publication.

The journal is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0), which permits authors to share and distribute their published manuscripts without restrictions, provided proper attribution to the original source is included. Reuse must adhere to academic standards, such as clearly indicating quotations or appropriately referencing paraphrased content.

This open access model increases the visibility and impact of published research while upholding high standards of academic quality and editorial integrity. Authors are encouraged to deposit their published work in institutional repositories and other academic platforms.

There are no article processing charges (APCs) for submission or publication in this journal.

To ensure long-term preservation and access, the journal maintains independent archives on internal servers. This ensures that content can be restored in the event of access loss from the main platform.

Sample Publishing License Agreement

Publishing License

The undersigned

Name SURNAME (“the Author”)

grants to

The International Association for Political Science Students (“the Publisher”)

the following licence.

Background

This agreement concerns the publishing of the article ‘TITLE OF YOUR ARTICLE HERE’ (“article”), and is intended to reflect a balance between the rights of the Author and the Publisher, according to the following principles:

  • The Author and the Publisher believe it is in the general interest to grant maximum access to scholarly and/or scientific works without compromising quality or academic freedom;
  • The Publisher wishes to stimulate participation in its activities and projects;
  • The Author and the Publisher believe that scholarly and scientific works should be available publicly, while a short-term (generally no more than one month) access restriction does not violate the principle of publicity.

Clause 1: Definitions

The following words shall have the following meanings:

  • Acceptance: The communication to the Author by the Publisher of his willingness to publish the Author’s work.
  • Publication: IAPSS Politikon, published in digital form, and if financially possible, also in printed form.

Clause 2: Licence of rights

  1. Upon Acceptance, the Author grants to the Publisher a sole licence to exploit the rights listed in clause 2.2 in the Article throughout the world for the full term of the copyright.
  2. The sole licence mentioned in clause 2.1 encompasses the right for the Publisher:
    1. to reproduce the Article in whole or in part, and to communicate the Article to the public in print and/or digital form, whether or not in combination with the works of others, for example the making available to the public via internet or any other network, as part of a database, on-line or off-line, for use by third parties;
    2. to translate the Article into other languages and to communicate the translation of the Article to the public;
    3. to create adaptations, summaries or extracts of the Article or other derivative works based on the Article and exercise all of the rights in such adaptations, summaries, extracts and derivative works;
    4. to include the Article, whether in translation or as adaptation or summary, in whole or in part in a computerised database and to make this database available to third parties;
    5. to include the Article, in whole or in part, whether in translation or as adaptation or summary, in a reader or compilation;
    6. to rent or lend the Article to third parties.
  3. The Publisher undertakes that the name of the Author and the source is acknowledged in standard bibliographic citation form.

Clause 3: Rights reserved by Author

3.1. The Author can exercise the following rights:

Educational or research use
To communicate the Article or to make it available to the public, in print form, whether as part of a course pack or a compilation, for use in education or research within the Author’s own institution or the institutions with which the Author is affiliated.

Dissemination
To upload the Article onto the closed network (e.g. intranet system) of the Author’s home institution or another appropriate institution and/or onto publicly accessible institutional and/or centrally organised repositories (such as SSRN, ResearchGate, Academia.edu), provided that a link is inserted to the Article on the Publisher’s website. If the article is uploaded together with a file in .pdf or any other standard format, an embargo period of three months since the publication of the Article on the Publisher’s website applies.

Preservation
To grant to the Author’s own institution (or another appropriate organisation) the authorisation to reproduce the Article for the purpose of preventing it from deteriorating, or if the original is currently in an obsolete format or the technology required to use the original is unavailable, for the purpose of ensuring that the Article continues to be available for education and research purposes.

Personal use
To present the Article at a meeting or conference and to hand out copies of the Article to the delegates attending the meeting.

3.2. For every form of (re)use of the Article as described in the above paragraphs, the Author or the Publisher undertakes always to include the complete source (at least the Author’s name, the title and the number of the Publication, and the name of the Publisher), unless this is impossible.

Clause 4: Moral rights

This agreement does not affect the moral rights of the Author in or to the Article. More specifically, the Author asserts his right to be identified as the Author and the right to object to derogatory treatment.

Clause 5: Warranty

  1. The Author warrants that he/she is the sole creator of the Article and that the Article does not infringe any existing third-party copyright or moral right.
  2. The Author shall hold harmless and indemnify the Publisher from any third-party claims resulting from the publication of the Article should there be a breach of this warranty. The warranties contained in this article also apply to any drawing, photograph or other illustration included in the Article and delivered by the Author.
  3. The Author authorises the Publisher to institute, in co-operation with the Author, the necessary steps to prevent third party infringement of the copyright in the Article. The Author and Publisher undertake to provide each other full co-operation and complete information in this regard. The costs are subject to a separate agreement when the question arises.

Clause 6: Obligation to publish

Subject to the Acceptance by the Publisher undertakes to publish the Article to the customary standard of the Publisher at the cost and expense of the Publisher within a reasonable period after Acceptance.

Clause 7: Legal relationship

  1. The Publisher may transfer the exploitation rights on the Article to a third party, provided that this third party fulfils the Publisher’s obligations contained in this agreement towards the Author.
  2. If the Author can show that his moral rights are affected by the use of his Article by the Publisher pursuant to a licence, the Author may demand that the Publisher stop said use. The Publisher must honour the request unless this cannot be reasonably asked of him in view of the scientific or historical value of the Article.
  3. The Author has the right to terminate this agreement if the Publisher goes into liquidation.
  4. Termination of this agreement does not affect any prior valid agreement made by the Publisher with third parties.
  5. Nothing in this agreement is intended to confer rights on any third party.

Clause 8: Multiple Authors

In the case of multiple authors, the Author has the consent of each author to enter this Licence to publish on behalf of them.

Clause 9: Applicable Law

This agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the country of residence of the Author whose courts shall be courts of competent jurisdiction.

Clause 10: Final clause

The agreement comes into effect immediately on Acceptance and shall remain in force for the lifetime of the copyright in the Article.

SIGNATURE

Signed by the Author on DATE