Open Access Policy

Politics & Security is a full open-access journal, which means that all its content is freely and publicly available to users and their institutions. Readers are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without prior permission from the publisher or the author, in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

All articles published in the journal are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. This license allows others to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the published material, even for commercial purposes, as long as they give appropriate credit to the original author(s).

Copyright & Licensing

The policy of Politics & Security is aimed at protecting authors' rights while ensuring the maximum dissemination of scientific knowledge.

  • Copyright Retention: Authors retain the copyright to their works without restrictions.
  • Right of First Publication: Authors grant the journal the right of first publication of the work under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, which allows others to freely share the work with acknowledgment of authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  • Further Distribution: Authors are permitted to distribute their published work (e.g., in institutional repositories or on personal websites), provided that they acknowledge its initial publication in Politics & Security.

If the article is accepted for publication, the author must sign a License Agreement. This agreement confirms that the work will be published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

[Download the License Agreement form here]

Article Processing Charges

Politics & Security adheres to the principle of fair and equal access to scholarly publications. The journal does not charge any fees for the submission, review, editing, or publication of manuscripts (Article Processing Charges, APCs).

All publishing costs are covered by the journal's founder — the Higher School of Security and Economics (Plovdiv, Bulgaria). This allows us to maintain a "Platinum" open access model, making scholarly knowledge free for both authors and readers.

Publisher

The Politics & Security journal is owned and managed by the Higher School of Security and Economics (Plovdiv, Bulgaria). All publishing and operational activities are managed by E-Science Space. This partnership ensures adherence to the highest international publishing standards, professional management, and global dissemination of its content.