Open Access Statement

”Komunizm. System - Ludzie - Dokumentacja” is an open access periodical: all of its contents are available without charge or requirement for registration. Users are allowed to read, print, download, copy, store in own repositories, share, display, or link the full texts of the papers published, under the terms of the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.

"Komunizm" publishes its contents under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

"Komunizm" provides open access to the published papers following the publisher’s and editorial board’s general assumption that free and unrestricted access to the results of the research is a public value, empowers the worldwide circulation of the knowledge, supports the researchers, complies with the public mission of the Institute of National Remembrance and "Libra" Association, and contributes to the popularisation of the  Institute's and Association's research.

Open access policy

The copyright for the contents of the periodical belongs to the Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of the Crimes against the Polish Nation and "Libra" Association. The papers are published online in the open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

The electronic versions of the papers are published online when the relevant files are available, however not earlier than completion of the issue contents.

Citation data availability

The metadata of the particular articles (authors' names, their ORCID identifiers and academic affiliations, DOIs, abstracts, keywords, referenced sources, cited publications) are displayed in the  records in the journal's repository (separately from the PDFs of the papers).