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Open access

This journal is published in Libre Open Access mode, a model of scholarly communication that provides free, instant online access to scholarly articles to all users without distinction. This status allows for free and unrestricted reading, downloading, copying, sharing, saving, printing, searching and hyperlinking.

By default, studies in the Česká literatura journal are published under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. Under this licence, anyone can download and share an article if they credit the author, but they may not modify it in any way or use it commercially. It is also possible to publish a study under another CC version (CC BY 4.0) if it better suits the funder’s rules and the open access policy of the author’s institution. If you need to publish an article under a version other than CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, please contact the editors (ceslit@ucl.cas.cz).

Licence conditions

By offering a contribution (hereinafter the “Work”) to the Česká literatura  journal editorial office, the author grants the Institute of Czech Literature, CAS (hereinafter the “Publisher”) a licence to the Work under specified conditions that are fully in compliance with Act No. 89/2012 Coll. Civil Code, and Act No. 121/2000 Coll., on Copyright, Rights Related to Copyright and Amendments to Certain Acts (Copyright Act):

  1. The author declares that the Work is original and has not yet been publicly published or offered for publication elsewhere, with the exception of social networks which normally serve the scholarly community (e.g. ResearchGate, Academia.edu).
  2. The author declares himself/herself to be the actual author of the Work and that s/he is entitled to offer the Work to the Česká literatura editorial office.
  3. In the case of a Work by co-authors, the author declares that s/he has informed the other co-authors about the licence conditions and is authorized to offer the Work to the Česká literatura editorial office.
  4. In the case of an employee’s Work, the author declares that s/he has informed the employer about the licence conditions and is entitled to offer the Work to the Česká literatura editorial office.
  5. The author agrees that if the Work is accepted for publication in the Česká literatura journal, the Work shall be redistributed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence (unless the author and the editors agree on a different licence). The full text of the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence terms is available here:  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode.cs. If the author requests a different licence version, he/she must inform the editors when submitting the article to the journal.
  6. The author bindingly declares that the granting of a Creative Commons licence does not infringe the rights of third parties, including but not limited to the employer, Publisher of the Work, co-author of the Work or other property rights holders.Should this statement prove to be untrue, the author is fully responsible for any damage caused in this manner.
  7. The author grants the Publisher a non-exclusive and all-inclusive licence free of charge for all known uses of the Work (particularly for reproduction, distribution and communication of the Work to the public) for the duration of the property rights of the Work.
  8. The author is permitted to immediately auto-archive the publishing postprint through repositories, personal pages, ResearchGate, Academia.edu, etc. The author is obliged to simultaneously refer to the published version of the Work, including the DOI.
  9. The author agrees that if the Work is published, it will be brought out on the pages of the Česká literatura journal and at the same time will be made available publicly, free of charge and electronically in the Kramerius Digital Library system of the Czech Academy of Sciences or in the archive of digitized journals on the Publisher’s website. The Work may also be published in the editors’ Česká literatura v síti blog. 
  10. The author agrees to the inclusion of the Work in scholarly, bibliographic and citation databases, digital libraries and information systems for the provision of information services (e.g. CEEOL, JSTOR), in which the journal will be kept in future. At the same time, however, this does not oblige the Publisher to use this permission to include the Work in databases and information systems.

 

Creative Commons

The Česká literatura journal is published as an open journal and by default uses a Creative Commons licence: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International).

The complete wording of the licence conditions can be found here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode. 

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International are publicly available licence terms that define the scope of authority in handling the Work.

Everyone is authorized to:

  • share the Work – reproduce and distribute the Work through any medium in any format,
  • include it in a collective work (e.g. to include the Work in an anthology).

And the following conditions also apply:

  • indicate the origin – you are obliged to indicate the title of the work, the name of the author, the source of the Work (Česká literatura), the designation of the licence used (refer to the full wording of the public licence conditions CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International),
  • do not use the Work commercially – it is prohibited to use the work for commercial purposes,
  • do not interfere with the work – if you modify, supplement or otherwise alter the work, you may not redistribute the modified work.

The recommended way to indicate the origin: This work entitled “Title”, authored by “Author’s Name”, published in the Česká literatura journal, which is available at (link to the Work), is licensed under the terms of the CC BY-NC-ND licence 4.0 International. The full text of the licence conditions is available here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode.

 

Alternative Creative Commons version:

The Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence comprises publicly available licensing terms that define the scope of authority to use the Work. The full text is here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.cs.

Everyone is authorized to:

  • share – reproduce or distribute the Work through any medium in any format for any purpose, including commercial,
  • adapt – from the original work for any purpose, even commercial.

At the same time, the following terms apply:

  • indicate the origin – it is your responsibility to provide the title of the work, the author’s name, the source of the work (the Česká literatura journal), the designation of the licence used (refer to the full text of the public CC BY 4.0 International licensing terms),

The recommended way to credit the origin: This work, titled “Title”, authored by “Author Name”, published in the Česká literatura journal, available at <link to Work>, is licensed under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 International licence. The full text of the licensing terms is available here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.cs.