Article Processing Charges and Publication Fees
The Eastern European Business and Economics Journal does not charge an Article Processing Charge (APC). Authors are not required to make any payment for submitting, processing, reviewing, editing, accepting, publishing, archiving, or accessing an article.
The journal applies this no-fee policy equally to all authors, regardless of their country, citizenship, institutional affiliation, professional position, research funding, or ability to pay. Publication decisions are based exclusively on scholarly merit, relevance, originality, methodological quality, and compliance with the journal’s editorial and ethical requirements.
EEBEJ Does Not Charge for Any of the Following
No submission or administrative fee.
No preliminary evaluation fee.
No fee for external peer review.
No Article Processing Charge.
No acceptance or editorial decision fee.
No publication or page charge.
No fee for approved figures or tables.
No fee for legitimate post-publication corrections.
No subscription, reading, or access fee.
No payment or registration is required.
No repository or self-archiving fee.
No fee for lawful academic and educational use.
Payment Requests Are Strictly Prohibited
No editor, reviewer, editorial board member, representative, intermediary, or other person is authorized to request or accept payment in connection with manuscript submission, peer review, editorial decisions, publication, access, downloading, indexing, archiving, or any other journal activity.
Any unofficial request for payment must be rejected and reported immediately to the journal’s editorial office.
Waivers and Discounts
Because EEBEJ does not charge authors any submission, processing, or publication fees, waivers and discounts are neither required nor applicable. All authors receive the same fee-free publication conditions.
Advertising and Commercial Influence
EEBEJ does not accept commercial advertising, paid promotional content, sponsored editorial material, paid links, or payments intended to influence editorial decisions, peer review, publication priority, article visibility, or journal content.
The journal’s editorial decisions are independent of financial, commercial, institutional, political, and personal interests. Financial contributions, sponsorship, institutional cooperation, or commercial relationships cannot guarantee submission, review, acceptance, publication, citation, indexing, or preferential treatment.
Open Access Policy
The Eastern European Business and Economics Journal is a fully open-access journal. All published articles are made freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication, without embargo, subscription, access charge, or mandatory user registration.
Readers may access, read, download, copy, share, print, search, link to, and otherwise lawfully use published content in accordance with the applicable Creative Commons licence. Open access supports the widest possible dissemination, discoverability, use, and impact of scholarly research.
Licensing Policy
Unless otherwise stated, articles published in EEBEJ are distributed under the
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0)
.
This licence permits users to copy, distribute, display, reproduce, adapt, translate, and build upon the published material for any lawful purpose, including academic, educational, and commercial use, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original author or authors and the original publication in EEBEJ.
Users must provide a link to the licence and indicate whether changes were made. Attribution must not suggest that the authors or the journal endorse a particular user, organization, product, or modified version.
Copyright and Author Rights
Authors retain copyright in their published articles. By submitting an accepted manuscript for publication, authors grant EEBEJ the non-exclusive right of first publication and permission to publish, distribute, preserve, index, and identify the journal as the original place of publication.
Authors remain free to use, share, reproduce, archive, translate, and build upon their work in accordance with the CC BY 4.0 licence, provided that the original publication in EEBEJ is properly acknowledged.
Third-Party Material
Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyrighted images, tables, datasets, instruments, or other third-party material that is not covered by the article’s Creative Commons licence. Any different copyright or licensing condition must be clearly identified in the published article.
Self-Archiving Policy
EEBEJ permits authors to deposit and share all permitted versions of their work without an embargo period. No fee or separate permission is required for lawful self-archiving.
Submitted Version
Authors may archive the original manuscript submitted to the journal.
Accepted Manuscript
Authors may archive the peer-reviewed manuscript accepted for publication.
Version of Record
Authors may archive and share the final published journal version.
Copies may be deposited on personal websites, institutional repositories, subject repositories, funder repositories, academic profiles, and other lawful non-deceptive platforms. The archived copy should include the complete citation and a link to the original publication on the journal website.
Digital Preservation and Archiving Policy
EEBEJ is committed to preserving its scholarly content and maintaining long-term access to published articles. The journal applies technical and organizational measures intended to reduce the risk of content loss and support future platform or format migration.
Regular Backups
Journal files, published PDFs, website content, and essential metadata are included in regular technical backups.
Metadata Preservation
Bibliographic information is maintained in structured form to support discovery, recovery, and migration.
Format Migration
Content may be migrated to updated formats or platforms where necessary to preserve accessibility.
Repository Copies
Author and institutional archiving creates additional distributed copies of published scholarship.
Persistent Access
The journal aims to maintain stable article records and permanent access to published files.
Journal Discontinuation
If publication ceases, reasonable measures will be taken to preserve access to the existing archive.
Preservation of the Scholarly Record
Published articles form part of the permanent scholarly record. Articles will not normally be removed or materially altered after publication. Where a correction, retraction, withdrawal, or other post-publication notice is necessary, the journal will preserve the original bibliographic record and publish a transparent notice explaining the action.
Removal of published content will be considered only in exceptional circumstances involving legal requirements, serious privacy or safety risks, court orders, or content whose continued availability would create substantial harm.
Free to Publish · Free to Read
EEBEJ does not charge authors, reviewers, readers, libraries, or institutions. Scholarly evaluation remains independent of payment, advertising, sponsorship, and commercial influence.