Open access statement and reference metadata

The Financial Markets, Institutions and Risks Journal is an open access periodical that publishes papers under the terms and conditions of Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0.

Articles published by our journal have DOIs (digital object identifiers) that contain all associated metadata and article URLs.

All authors are required to provide their ORCID iDs.

The authors’ self-archiving policy is welcomed since the journal supports the idea that such a policy contributes to the wider spreading of scientific discoveries and achievements.

The Financial Markets, Institutions and Risks Journal is a signatory and adheres to a number of open access initiatives.

Budapest Open Access Initiative, adopted in 2002, defines the concept of “Open Access” and outlines the main strategies for ensuring it. Its goal is to make research available to anyone with Internet access and to promote progress in science, medicine, and healthcare. The Budapest Initiative defines Open Access as “free access to scientific literature via the Internet, allowing any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of works, without any financial, legal or technical restrictions. The only possible restriction on the distribution and reproduction of works is the right of the author to control the integrity of the text, as well as the obligatory indication of authorship when using and citing”.

The Financial Markets, Institutions and Risks Journal is a signatory of the BOAI.

Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities was published on 22 October 2003 in English. It is one of the milestones of the Open Access movement. It defines open access as a comprehensive source of human knowledge and cultural heritage that has been approved by the scientific community. The Berlin Declaration promotes the Internet as a functional instrument for a global scientific knowledge base and human reflection and to specify measures which research policy makers, research institutions, funding agencies, libraries, archives and museums need to consider.

The Financial Markets, Institutions and Risks Journal is a signatory of the Berlin Declaration.

I4OC is a collaborative effort among scholars, publishers, and others with an interest in promoting the unfettered availability of scholarly citation data. The primary goal of this initiative is to encourage the availability of structured, separable, and open citation data.

Structured data refers to the representation of each publication and citation instance in a common, machine-readable format that can be programmatically accessed.

Separable data means that citation instances can be accessed and analysed without the need to access the source bibliographic products, such as journal articles and books, in which the citations are created.

Open data implies that the information is freely accessible and can be reused.

Academic Research and Publishing UG, as the publisher of the Financial Markets, Institutions and Risks Journal, supports I4OC initiative. They deposit reference lists from journal articles to Crossref, allowing references to be shared through all of Crossref Metadata Delivery services without restriction to any interested party.

The Academic Research and Publishing UG (i. G.) (AR&P) LLC, as the publisher of the Financial Markets, Institutions and Risks Journal, joined the service Cited-by (Crossref) to make references metadata from all publications public and open. Members who use this service are helping readers to easily navigate to related research, see how the work has been received by the wider community, explore how ideas evolve over time by highlighting connections between works.

The Cape Town Open Education Declaration is an important international declaration on open access, open education, and open educational resources, which was officially released on January 22, 2008. The foundation of the declaration was the Open Education Conference (Cape Town, September 14-15, 2007), organized by the Shuttleworth Foundation and the Open Society Institute. The purpose of this meeting was to “accelerate efforts to promote open resources, technologies, and teaching practices in education”. The Declaration is intended to unite all those who share the view that resources for the dissemination of knowledge and ideas should be available to everyone.

Academic Research and Publishing UG (i. G.), as the publisher of the Financial Markets, Institutions and Risks Journal, is a signatory of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration.

Developed during a meeting on April 11, 2003, this statement establishes “open access” as a term to describe initiatives aimed at making research more widely and easily accessible. The statement defines two conditions that publications must meet to be open: a free, irrevocable right of access and license to copy, use, distribute and create derivative works; and storage in an online repository that provides open access, interoperability and long-term archiving.

Academic Research and Publishing UG (i. G.), as the publisher of the Financial Markets, Institutions and Risks Journal, adheres to Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing.

The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) was founded in 2008 to bring together organizations involved in open scholarly infrastructure. Its main goal is to support open access as the main form of dissemination of scientific knowledge. The association includes publishers from all over the world who undergo a rigorous application process and commit to adhere to the Code of Conduct. In its work, Academic Research and Publishing UG (i. G.), as the publisher of the Financial Markets, Institutions and Risks Journal, relies on the requirements for open access publishers formulated by the Association and adheres to the basic criteria for all publishing organizations specified by the Association.

DOAJ is an independent, free publication directory that aims to promote high-quality peer-reviewed open access scholarly journals, regardless of discipline, geography, or language. Through its activities, DOAJ seeks to promote the Open Access movement and provide free and unimpeded access to reliable scientific discoveries from around the world. Financial Markets, Institutions and Risks is indexed by DOAJ.

The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers is an international trade association of nonprofit publishers and those who work with them to disseminate scholarly and professional information in journals, books, and other media. These principles is the result of ALPSP’s analysis of the needs of authors and readers, as well as the practices of scholarly journal publishers. It provides recommendations for practices that serve the interests of science while not harming the publishers’ business.

Academic Research and Publishing UG (i. G.), as the publisher of the Financial Markets, Institutions and Risks Journal, adheres to the ALPSP principles of scholarship-friendly journal publishing practice.

Developed by the European Commission, these guidelines are intended to “facilitate the transition to open science in the European Union. They provide guidance on promoting openness, research data management, text and data mining, and technical standards for the reuse of research content”.

Academic Research and Publishing UG (i. G.), as the publisher of the Financial Markets, Institutions and Risks Journal, adheres to the Recommendation on Access to and Preservation of Scientific Information, in Support of Open Science.

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is committed to the principles of freedom of access to information and the belief that universal and equitable access to information is vital for the social, educational, cultural, democratic, and economic well-being of people, communities, and organizations. In its statement, IFLA not only recognizes the importance of free access for the development of scientific communication, but also calls for “the introduction of a strict system of quality control of scientific research, ensuring the long-term preservation of scientific information, protecting freedom from censorship, providing effective and convenient services for users, supporting “information literacy”, and developing the infrastructure for access to information”.

Academic Research and Publishing UG (i. G.), as the publisher of the Financial Markets, Institutions and Risks Journal, supports the IFLA Statement on open access.