The journal Animal Biology follows an open access policy and provides free, unrestricted, and immediate access to the full texts of all published articles as soon as they are made available on the journal’s official website.
Copyright and Licensing
Copyright for articles remains with the authors. By publishing their work in Animal Biology, authors grant the journal the right of first publication and agree to the distribution of the article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), unless otherwise provided by the journal’s editorial policy.
The CC BY 4.0 license permits copying, distribution, reproduction, adaptation, and use of the material, including for commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given to the authors, a link to the license is provided, and any changes made are indicated.
Self-Archiving
Authors may deposit published articles or versions of materials approved by the Editorial Office in institutional repositories, on personal academic webpages, in scholarly networks, and on other resources. In such cases, the full bibliographic details of the publication and a link to the official website of the journal must be provided.
Compliance with Open Access Principles
The journal’s policy complies with the definition of open access formulated within the framework of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI). The journal’s licensing policy is compatible with the main international approaches to open access, self-archiving, and long-term preservation of scholarly publications.
