Author's rights

In accordance with the Open Access policy, authors retain full copyright in their articles, excluding copyright and property rights of third parties relating to any photographic or museum etc. material attached to the article and published in Sacrum et Decorum.

Authors have the right to:

- to distribute their text,
- freely deposit in a repository of their choice as:

preprint

Once the manuscript has been submitted, authors may deposit the submitted version in their personal, institutional or online preprint repository. The following wording should be clearly stated on the first page of the manuscript:

"This paper is a preprint of a paper submitted to 'Sacrum et Decorum' (ISSN: 1689-5010)".

If the article is rejected, the authors must remove any mention of the journal.

postprint

The author may post the postprint version (the accepted version of the manuscript after peer review and substantive revisions, but before editing, typesetting and proofreading) on the author's personal website, provided it is non-commercial, and on the author's institution's repository with journal information (the information should read:

"This is an accepted peer-reviewed version of the paper.

A published version of the article is available in Sacrum et Decorum (ISSN: 1689-5010),

at https://doi.org/[doi article]).

published version of an open access article
The author may deposit the published version of the article (the final edited and submitted version, which is publicly accessible by the Publisher and can be considered an article) in any institutional repository, and distribute and make it publicly available in any way with a thank you to the journal (the thank you should read as follows:

"This is a published version of the paper, available at "Sacrum et Decorum" (ISSN: 1689-5010), at https://doi.org/[doi of the article])".

- republishing and/or quotation
subject to any requirements of third-party copyright owners and provided full credit is given to the original publication.

Copyright notices must be displayed prominently.
They must not be blurred, removed or hidden, in whole or in part.

Availability of materials and data:

Authors are encouraged to make their research openly available by depositing it in data repositories to maintain the integrity, transparency and reproducibility of research records.
Data can be deposited with specialised service providers or in institutional/subject-specific repositories, preferably ones that use the DataCite mechanism.
The article should include the name of the data repository, the link to the dataset (URL) and the accession number, doi or dataset number.