The peer-reviewed academic journal «Obraz» supports the Budapest Open Access Initiative and provides permanent free open access to its content.

Authors retain unrestricted rights to use their work for any lawful purposes and grant the journal «Obraz» the right of first publication under the Creative Commons Attribution (СС-BY) License, which allows users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon) the material in any medium or format for any lawful purpose. In all cases of use or processing of an article or its parts, proper bibliographic citation or a hyperlink to the electronic version available on the journal’s official website is mandatory.

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The author grants the editorial board the right to distribute both print and electronic versions of the article through any electronic means (including publication on the journal’s official website, in electronic databases, repositories, etc.), as well as to disseminate the article’s metadata in various databases.

The author may freely share, reuse, archive, and distribute the published article (including the final electronic version downloaded from the official website of «Obraz») in institutional repositories, on personal websites, in academic networks, and on other platforms, provided proper attribution is given, and a reference to the original publication in the journal is included.

In accordance with the principles of academic and publication ethics, the editorial board encourages authors to follow the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics and to avoid any forms of citation manipulation.

While the editorial board makes every effort to uphold publication standards, authors bear primary responsibility for the accuracy, originality, and ethical integrity of their materials.