The Editorial Office of the Collection adheres to an Open Access policy.

The Collection is registered in the global ROR registry, which promotes transparency and open access to scientific information.

All articles are published on the Collection website free of charge and without time limitations, and are also distributed through the national library system, where they are stored in printed and electronic formats in the Scientific Periodicals of Ukraine database of the V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine.

Full-text real-time access to the scientific articles of the Collection is available on the official website of the Collection at https://journal.yuzhnoye.com/.

Users are free to read, download, copy, and distribute the content for educational and scientific purposes, provided that authorship and the source of publication are properly acknowledged.

Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) open-access license, which means that anyone may download and read the article free of charge. In addition, the article may be reused and cited, provided that the original published version is referenced. These terms allow maximum use and dissemination of the work while ensuring that authors receive proper recognition.

Authors retain all intellectual property rights to the article and grant the Collection a non-exclusive license to use the submitted article.

The license is granted free of charge.

The license is granted worldwide.

The license is granted for the full term of the author’s intellectual property rights. The author grants the Editorial Office the right to use the work in the following ways:

• Reproduction of the work.
• Publication of the work in the Collection.
• Inclusion of the work in collections, anthologies, databases, and other publications.
• Distribution of copies of the work.
• Translation of the work.
• Adaptation, modification, and other similar changes to the work.
• Scientific, literary, and technical editing of the work.
• Any further publication of the work.
• Posting the work on the Internet.
• Placement in electronic libraries and information systems.
• Other ways of making the work publicly available.

All materials are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) open-access license, which allows users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, cite, or link to the full text of the article in this scientific publication.

The policy of the Collection allows and encourages authors to post the manuscript online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on personal websites) both before submitting the manuscript to the Editorial Office and during the editorial process, as this promotes productive scientific discussion and positively affects the efficiency and dynamics of citation of the published work (The Effect of Open Access).