The peer-reviewed academic journal «Obraz» supports the Budapest Open Access Initiative, adheres to an Open Access policy, and provides permanent free open access to its content for users and their institutions. Full-text, real-time access to the journal’s scholarly articles is available on the official website in the «Archives» section, in the electronic institutional repository of Sumy State University (eSSUIR), in the V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, OpenDOAR, and other platforms.

The academic journal «Obraz» publishes articles and research communications under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY). This allows users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, cite, or use the materials for any other lawful purpose without prior permission from the publisher or author, provided that proper attribution to the original publication is given.

The journal encourages its authors to deposit electronic copies of their articles (including the final electronic version downloaded from the journal’s official website) on personal web resources (websites, web pages, blogs, etc.); on the web resources of the institutions where the authors are employed (including electronic institutional repositories); and on other open access web platforms.