Open Access

The scientific proceedings Strength of Materials and Theory of Structures adheres to the principles of open access to scientific publications. The full texts of articles are freely available to readers on the official website of the publication.

Users may read and download published materials, search for articles, save them for personal research and educational purposes, and cite them in accordance with the terms of the licence under which the material is published.

The open access policy of the proceedings is based on the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), which aims to promote the free dissemination of research results and broaden access to scientific information.

Official website of the proceedings: https://omtc.knuba.edu.ua/.

Licensing

Materials published in Strength of Materials and Theory of Structures are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) licence.

The licence permits users to copy, distribute, and adapt published materials subject to the following conditions:

• Attribution (BY): The name(s) of the author(s), the article title, the publication source, and the DOI, if assigned, must be acknowledged.

• NonCommercial (NC): The materials may not be used for commercial purposes.

• ShareAlike (SA): Adapted materials must be distributed under the same licence.

Any use of the materials must include an appropriate bibliographic reference to the original source and comply with the terms of the licence and applicable copyright legislation.

Further information on open access and licensing is available at: https://opir.knuba.edu.ua/content/politika-vidkritogo-dostupu-ta-licenzuvannya.

Adherence to the Principles of DORA

The editorial board supports the principles of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA).

When reviewing manuscripts, the editorial board gives primary consideration to the scientific quality of the research, the relevance of the research topic, the soundness of the methodology, the reliability and reproducibility of the results, the scientific novelty, and the contribution of the work to the relevant field of knowledge.

Manuscripts are evaluated on the basis of their content and scientific merit. Journal-level and author-level bibliometric indicators should not replace the assessment of the quality of an individual research publication.

Adherence to the FAIR Principles

The editorial board supports the FAIR principles for research data: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.

Authors are encouraged to provide adequate descriptions of their research data, use widely accepted file formats, identify data sources, and, where possible, deposit datasets in trusted repositories with persistent identifiers.

Where the conclusions of an article are based on research data, authors are encouraged to provide information on how these data can be accessed or to explain any restrictions on their dissemination.

Support for International Open Science Initiatives

The editorial board supports the development of open science and the principles of openness in research, including the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), and the Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA).

The metadata of published articles, including bibliographic information and DOIs, are used to facilitate the discovery, identification, and citation of scientific publications. Information about articles whose metadata have been deposited with Crossref can be accessed via the following link:

https://search.crossref.org/search/works?q=Strength+of+Materials+and+Theory+of+Structures.

Research Data Policy

A DOI is assigned to each published article in accordance with the publication procedures of the proceedings. Article metadata are submitted to the relevant registration service to ensure the identification and discoverability of publications.

Authors are encouraged to preserve the research data supporting the findings reported in their articles in open or specialised repositories, provided that doing so does not conflict with confidentiality requirements, copyright, or other lawful restrictions. Where a dataset has a persistent identifier, authors may include it in their article.