This journal is a peer reviewed, open access journal.
Issues of the journal, as well as individual articles are freely available and indefinitely posted on the journal’s official website in the Archive section immediately after the publication of the next issue (no embargo period).
A free subscription to the full electronic version of the journal in PDF format is possible . Its electronic version will be sent automatically to your e-mail after the release of the next journal issue.
Licensing terms
Published in this journal articles are licensed under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial – No Derivatives 4.0 International) license, which provides for their non-commercial use only. Under this license, users have the right to copy and distribute the material in copyright, but are not permitted to modify or use it for commercial purposes. Full details on the licensing are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
User Rights
Users are allowed free use of the article, provided that its author and source are indicated, but only for non-commercial purposes. In addition, users are prohibited from making any changes to the work or in any way violating its integrity. For commercial use, users need to contact the copyright holder to obtain a separate license allowing such use.
Author Rights
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) that allows others to read, download, copy free and distribute the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
The authors retain the right to enter into certain contractual agreements relating to the non-exclusive distribution of the published version of the work (e.g. post it on the institutional repository, publication in the book), with the reference to its original publication in this journal. The authors have the right to post their work on the Internet (e.g. on the institutional store or personal website) prior to and during the review process, conducted by the journal, as this may lead to a productive discussion and a large number of references to this work.
Open Access Publication Fee
As an open access journal with no subscription charges, a fee is payable by the author or research funder to cover the costs associated with publication.
The publication fee can be made by the authors only after passing the review procedure and a positive decision of the editorial board to accept the manuscript for publication.
The publication fee for this journal is:
- free for foreign authors (without co-authors from the Republic of Kazakhstan);
- free for authors with a Hirsch index more than 10;
- 20,000 tenge for authors from the Buketov Karaganda University (teaching staff, master and doctoral students);
- 40,000 tenge for authors from third-party organizations.
Archiving
The journal has been published in electronic format since 2010. All electronic issues of the journal are stored in the "Archive" section of the journal's website.
The electronic version of the journal are obligatory submitted and stored in the:
- Republican interuniversity electronic library ;
- Buketov Karaganda University Repository ;
- Scientific electronic library .