The journal implements various procedures designed to ensure permanent access to the content hosted on its servers:

- backup;

- monitoring of technical aspects to prevent potential format conversions or software obsolescence;

- digital preservation metadata;

- use of Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs).

In addition, the journal stores its metadata in a repository to ensure the long-term digital preservation of articles (e.g., the V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine and the OUCI system).

The journal adheres to the Diamond Open Access model, which implies the absence of fees for both authors and readers. All scholarly publications are freely available without financial, technical, or legal restrictions.

The journal *Word of the National School of Judges of Ukraine* is committed to promoting transparency and reproducibility in research. We encourage authors to make their research data available in accordance with the FAIR principles. This policy describes our approach to the sharing and management of research data.

The journal supports the FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management:

Findable:

- Data should be assigned a persistent identifier (DOI)

- Data should be described with rich metadata

- Metadata should be registered in a searchable resource

Accessible:

- Data should be retrievable using standard protocols

- Access conditions should be clearly stated

- Metadata should remain accessible even if data is restricted 

Interoperable:

- Data should use standardized formats

- Data should use controlled vocabularies where applicable

- Data should include references to related data 

Reusable:

- Data should have clear usage licenses

- Data provenance should be documented

- Data should meet domain-relevant standards

Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) Policy

In accordance with our journal’s open access policy and applicable intellectual property laws, we support the Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) policy.

An Author’s Accepted Manuscript (AAM) is a version of a scientific work that has undergone peer review and been accepted by the editorial board for publication, but is still in the stage prior to typesetting, proofreading, and technical editing by the publisher. This is the final draft of the author’s text, preceding the creation of the “Version of Record.”

Allocation of Intellectual Property Rights

1.    Copyright: The economic and moral rights to the text, data, and research results in the AAM version belong to the authors.

2.    Design Rights: The rights to the specific graphic design, layout, design, and pagination (page numbers) belong to the publisher.

3.    Licensing: We recommend that authors distribute the AAM version under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-NC 4.0). This allows others to copy and distribute the material provided they include a mandatory reference to the authorship and the original source (our journal).

Self-Archiving Policy

The publisher grants the author a non-exclusive right to self-archive the AAM version in institutional or subject-specific repositories without restriction.

This means that the author has the right to:

-    Make the AAM available in open access on the website of their university or research institution.

-    Upload the AAM to international databases (e.g., Zenodo, SSRN).

-    Use this version to meet the requirements of funding agencies (e.g., the National Research Foundation of Ukraine or Horizon Europe programs) that require immediate open access to the results of funded research.

MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF AAM

When uploading a manuscript to the repository, in accordance with indexing rules (URIS and international databases), the author must include the following legal disclaimer:

“This is the accepted manuscript of the article [article title], which has been accepted for publication in the journal ‘Slovo of the National School of Judges of Ukraine.’ The final published version will be available at DOI: [link].”