Open Access

Open access journal
Research Paper in Economics and Finance is a peer-reviewed, subsidised open access journal in which the Poznań University of Economics and Business covers the journal's publishing costs. Authors do not have to pay any fees for open access publication. In addition, the model of the journal is that authors are not charged any fees for submitting manuscripts, reviewing and publishing papers.

Copyrights
Copyright on any open access article published in the Research Papers in Economics and Finance is retained by the author(s).

Access Rights
All articles published open access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read, download, copy and distribute.

User Rights
The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0)  applies to articles published in Research Papers in Economics and Finance from Vol. 4, No. 2, 2020 to present. This license is acceptable for Free Cultural Works. You are free to share and adapt. You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. The full details of the license are available at link 

The Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0) applies to articles published in Research Papers in Economics and Finance up to issue Vol. 4, No. 1, 2020 inclusive. You are free to share and adapt. You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may not use the material for commercial purposes. The full details of the license are available at link 

Publishing Schedule
Research Paper in Economics and Finance is a semi-annual journal - we publish articles in June and December.

Digital archiving and preservation
This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. Research Papers in Economics and Finance encourages the open communications between researchers and supports the publisher's version in any repository without embargo. 
Research Papers in Economics and Finance has a Community established on Zenodo. This address links directly to community collection https://zenodo.org/communities/ref/ Zenodo helps researchers receive credit by making the research results citable and through OpenAIRE integrates them into existing reporting lines to funding agencies like the European Commission. Citation information is also passed to DataCite and onto the scholarly aggregators.

Indexing and abstracting
Research Papers in Economics and Finance is indexed and distributedin BazEkon Citations, CEJSH: The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, C.E.E.O.L.: Central and Eastern European Online Library GmbH, EBSCO Publishing Inc., PKP Index, The National Library Digital Repository.