Open Access

The research collection “Plant Breeding and Seed Production” (Selektsiia i Nasinnytstvo) is a fully open-access, freely available periodical. The Editorial Board consistently adheres to the Immediate Open Access policy for all published content, guided by the principle of barrier-free dissemination of scientific information, enhancing the global visibility of research, and fostering active knowledge exchange for general scientific and societal progress.

1. Open Access Model and Article Processing Charges (APC)

The research collection “Plant Breeding and Seed Production” operates under a non-commercial Diamond Open Access model.

  • For Authors: Publication of articles in the research collection is absolutely free of charge. The publication does not charge authors any submission charges, peer review fees, editing, typesetting, DOI (Digital Object Identifier) assignment, or direct publication fees (Article Processing Charges, APC).
  • For Readers: All scientific content becomes fully available (full-text) in electronic format in the "Archive" section on the official research collection website immediately upon the release of each issue. The research collection does not require a paid subscription, registration, or any other fees from users or their institutions for access to materials. This policy applies equally to all categories of researchers, including leading scientists, lecturers, doctoral candidates, and postgraduate students.

2. International Standards and Declarations

The editorial staff adheres to the latest global recommendations regarding transparency, publishing ethics, and best practices in scholarly publishing. In shaping and updating our editorial open access policy, we are strictly guided by the provisions of the following foundational documents:

3. Licensing and Terms of Content Reuse All materials published in the research collection "Plant Breeding and Seed Production" are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

In accordance with the license terms and international publishing standards, users (readers, institutions, and third-party researchers) are permitted free of charge to:

·       Read, download, copy, and distribute the article or its components for any lawful purposes (including commercial ones);

·       Create extracts, abstracts, summaries, and other revised versions, adaptations, or derivative works based on the article (such as translations into other languages);

·       Include the article in a collective work (such as an anthology, collection, or database);

·       Perform automated text and data mining of the published materials.

Mandatory conditions for any reuse of materials:

1.     Appropriate Credit: The user must provide a full and correct bibliographic citation to the original source (indicating the authors, article title, the name of the research collection "Plant Breeding and Seed Production", year of publication, issue, and an active link to the formal publication through the relevant DOI identifier).

2.     Indication of Changes: The user must include a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if any changes were made to the original text.

3.     Protection of Authors: Any reuse or adaptation must not represent the author(s) as endorsing the adaptation of the article. It is strictly prohibited to alter or modify the article in such a way as to damage the authors' honor, dignity, or professional reputation.

4. Benefits of Open Access Policy for Authors

This approach ensures maximum visibility of research results in the fields of plant breeding, genetics, and seed production of agricultural crops. The works of our authors become easily accessible to the international scientific community and are indexed faster by scientometric databases and repositories. This increases their citation rates and contributes to the integration of Ukrainian agricultural science into the global research space.

5. Self-Archiving by Authors

The Editorial Board supports the authors' right to self-archive and distribute their own publications. Detailed terms regarding the allowed versions of manuscripts (Preprint, Postprint, Publisher's PDF) and the rules for their placement in institutional repositories or on personal platforms are provided in a dedicated section Self-archiving Policy