Open access

This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or institution on the journal’s website. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. No charge will be levied on an author in order to process or publish a paper. The full texts of the articles of the journal are freely available on the journal’s website.

The journal allows the authors to hold the copyright without restrictions. Authors have at their disposal copies of their articles in both the submitted version, accepted version (Author Accepted Manuscript) and published version (Version of Record).

A complete version of the article and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission, is deposited in online repository immediately after initial publication supported by an academic institution, which enables open access, unrestricted distribution, interoperability and long-term archiving.

For "The Scientific Journal of the Institute of Women's Studies", is such a repository: RUB - Repository of the University of Białystok .

License

Publisher copyright policies and self-archiving are defined in the BOAI [Budapest Open Access Initiative], BSOAP [Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing] and BDOAKSH [Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities] - "BBB definitions". Articles in „Scientific Journal of the Institute of Women's Studiesare” licensed under a (CC BY-SA 4.0 PL). No charge will be levied on an author in order to process or publish a paper.

Ethical standards of publication

The journal respects the policy of ethical principles based on Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines edited by Committee on Publication Ethics, including:
• honesty
• confidentiality
• punctuality
• preventing conflicts of interests on the part of editorial board members
• preventing conflicts of interest on the part of reviewers
• preventing conflicts of interest on the part of authors
• reliability of sources
• reliable research presentation
• originality of work
• avoiding errors in the published work
• transparency use of GenAI - see guidelines in pdf file

Anti-plagiarism policy

The journal has a policy of screening for plagiarism. The authors must only present for publication their own original articles, which have not been published previously as a whole or in significant parts of any other copyrighted content. The authors guarantee that any article submitted for review has not also been submitted for publication in another journal, collective work etc. The degree of originality article that authors are obliged to inform the editorial board about are in the appropriate statement. Authors must cite publications that have been used in the creation of the article. Responsibility for the use of photographs and drawings in the sent materials of articles rests with the authors. Editors indicate that all detected cases of unethical behaviour will be unmasked, including notification of the relevant actors. Editors document any manifestations of scientific misconduct.

Ghostwriting and guest authorship

To prevent any misconduct in science (ghostwriting, guest authorship), the editorial board has introduced appropriate procedures. Ghostwriting takes place when someone has made a substantial contribution to the article, but neither their part as one of the authors has been disclosed, nor mentioned in the acknowledgments of the publication. Guestauthorship takes place when the named author’s contribution is negligible or even non-existent, even though their name is listed as an author or co-author. Editors will explain the concept of ghostwriting and guest authorship, as manifestations of scientific misconduct of authors, any detected cases of actions of this kind on the part of the authors will be revealed, including the notification of the appropriate entities. Editors will require information about author’s contribution from authors in the creation of the article. The primary responsibility will be borne by the person submitting the article. In the case of any absence of information about unequal contributions on the part of the authors, it will be assumed that the share is equal. Editors will obtain information about the sources of publication funding, contributions from research institutions and other entities. The primary responsibility will be borne by the person submitting the article. Editors will document all forms of scientific misconduct, especially breaking the rules of conduct that is obligatory in science.

Archiving Policy

In the event that „The Scientific Journal of the Institute of Women's Studies” ceases publication, the journal content will be preserved and made available through the University of Bialystok Repository. This ensures long-term access to the valuable research published in the journal.

The archive will include:
• full-text articles. All research articles, reviews, and other scholarly content published in the journal
• abstracts for all articles
• information about each article, such as author names, publication date, and keywords, to facilitate searching and discovery.

Scoring of The Scientific Journal of The Institute of Women's Studies

According to the score of the Minister of Science and Higher Education, The Scientific Journal of the Institute of Women's Studies received 70 points. In the appendix to the announcement of the Minister of Education and Science of December 21, 2021, SJIWS is at position no. 29899, the journal's unique identifier: 200108.
Assigned scientific disciplines :
• history
• literary studies
• cultural and religious studies
• social communication and media science
• political and administrative sciences
• legal sciences