All journals published by the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, are peer reviewed and committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics. In order to provide our readers with journals of highest quality we state the following principles of Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement. All articles not in accordance with these standards will be removed from the publication if malpractice is discovered at any time even after the publication. In accordance with the code of conduct we will report any cases of suspected plagiarism or duplicate publishing.

Authors must ensure that they have written original works. In addition they must ensure that the manuscript has not been issued elsewhere. Any work or words of other authors, contributors, or sources should be appropriately credited and referenced. Authors submitting their works to the journal for publication as original articles confirm that the submitted works represent their authors' contributions and have not been copied or plagiarized in whole or in part from other works without clearly citing. All authors should disclose financial or other conflict of interest that might influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript (financial support for the project should be disclosed). When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author's obligation to promptly notify the journal editor and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper. Submitting a paper simultaneously to more than one publication at a time is a breach of publications ethics.

Editors must ensure a fair blind peer-review of the submitted articles for publication. They will strive to prevent any potential conflict of interests between the author and editorial and review personnel. Editors will also ensure that all the information related to submitted manuscripts is kept as confidential before publishing.

Reviewers evaluate manuscripts based on content without regard to ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, citizenship, religious belief or political philosophy of the authors. They must ensure that all the information related to submitted manuscripts is kept as confidential and must report to the Editor-in-Chief if they are aware of copyright infringement and plagiarism on the author's side. They must evaluate the submitted works objectively as well as present their opinions on the works in a clear way in the review form. A reviewer who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the Editor-in-Chief and excuse himself from the review process.

Copyright and Open Acces policy
The Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the editors of the journal Etnograia Polska ensure respect for the right to privacy and protection of the authors' personal data (more in the Privacy Policy) and compliance with copyright.

The Author transfers to the Publisher without remuneration economic rights to the Work in following exploitation fields: (a) publish the work, (b) reproduce, (c) publicly playback the work, (d) produce copies of the work using any technique, (e) broadcast and rebroadcast, (f) making the work available to the public in such a way that everyone can have access to them at the place and time chosen by them.

Moreover, the Author (a) allows for drawing up and disposal of compilations of the work, (b) waives the intermediation of copyright collection societies at the conclusion of this agreement, (c) transfers the right to exercise ancillary copyright to the compilation of the work, (d) transfers to the PUBLISHER the right to consent to the disposition and use of the compilation of the work by other entities in the fields of exploitation listed in this Agreement.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content under a CC BY licence, on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

The journal Etnografia Polska is made available under the terms of Open Access in accordance with the CC-BY version 4.0 International licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.pl). This policy came into force in 2020. Articles published before 2020 are made available in accordance to the licences in force at the time.

Authors are not charged any APCs (Article Processing Charges) or other publication fees.

Procedures:

- The author undertakes that the submitted text does not infringe the copyrights and rights of third parties.

- if an article has more than one author, the writers concur that the only contact with the Editorial Board in the editorial process is through the corresponding author. The latter is responsible for communicating with other authors and informing them about the progress, corrections and final approval of the article.

- Authors declare that they are familiar with the Open Access policy and the text of the publishing agreement, all the authors of the text are obliged to agree in advance with their co-authors of the publications to publication of their text under the CC-BY 4.0 licence.

- The editors are obliged to keep confidential all information related to the texts submitted to the editors. As part of the reviewing principles, the so-called Double-blind review process (author and reviewers do not know their identity) is applied - see ‘Review procedure’

- After receiving the article, the author receives a confirmation message that the text has been received.

- Within two weeks The Editorial Office will make a decision on acceptance or non-acceptance of the article. Lack of acceptance may be complete (rejection of the article) or conditional, i.e. the editors may suggest some corrections and only after they have been taken into account may the article be re-sent to the editors.

- The editors forward the text for review, and after the reviews are received, they are immediately forwarded to the Author.

- The author takes into account or refers to the comments of reviewers. It is mandatory to provide answers to any comments of the reviewers not considered in the revision of the text.

- In the file sent to the editors, the author applies any corrections only in the ‘track changes’ mode.

- After receiving a corrected article, it is submitted to the editing process and sent again to the authors. The authors are required to address any editorial comment, especially if they do not accept them. The author applies any corrections to the file sent by the editors only in the ‘track changes’ mode. The editors reserve the right to shorten and edit the style of texts as well as to reject the article, even in the case of previous positive reviews, e.g. in the event of disagreement with the author regarding editorial corrections.

- After accepting the amendments, the author submits the file along with the signed publishing agreement in two copies to the Institute.

- After editorial preparation, the article is sent for typesetting. After this has been completed, the author receives the article for approval (pdf file). If the correction is not returned within 10 days, the Editorial Office considers this version of the article to have been accepted by the author.

- Submitting an article to the journal Etnografia Polska is an indication of the author's prior acceptance of the adopted procedure and the publisher's publishing policy.

The Editors of the journal Etnografia Polska have a policy regarding digital preservation through archiving. Materials submitted to the journal's Editorial Office, so called pre-prints (the finished version of the article that has not yet passed the review and revision stage) and post-print (the final versison of the document after the review and revision stage), are archived on the OJS platform for two years after submission. The online published version (publisher's final file) is stored on the OJS platform perpetually.