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

Research Papers in Economics and Finance (REF) ensures the long-term preservation and accessibility of its published content through multiple digital archiving solutions. All articles are assigned a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) and stored in the journal’s primary online platform hosted by Poznań University of Economics and Business Press. The journal’s content is archived in: National Library in Poland - ensuring compliance with national archiving standards and PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) – providing decentralized preservation through the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) system. These measures guarantee that all articles remain permanently available, even in the event of system failures or other technical disruptions.

Repository Policy

Research Papers in Economics and Finance (REF) allows authors to deposit all versions of their work in institutional or subject repositories, as well as on personal websites, immediately upon publication, without embargo. Preprint (version submitted for peer review) – may be deposited at any time, with a clear indication that the manuscript has not yet undergone peer review. Author’s Accepted Manuscript (AAM) – the version accepted for publication after peer review may be deposited in repositories, provided that a citation to the final published version is included. Version of Record (VoR) – the final, publisher-formatted PDF as it appears on the REF website may be deposited in repositories immediately after publication, with full bibliographic details and a link to the journal’s website. All deposited versions must include a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) linking to the official publication on the REF website and must credit Poznań University of Economics and Business Press as the publisher. REF follows the green open access policy, in line with the Budapest Open Access Initiative, ensuring that published research remains freely accessible to the global scholarly community.

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.