Copyright & Licence

This policy sets out the rules on copyright, the publishing licence, Creative Commons licensing, self-archiving and the use of third-party materials in articles published in “Systemy Logistyczne Wojsk” / “Military Logistics Systems” (SLW).

Copyright and Author Rights
Authors retain copyright, including economic rights, and full publishing rights without restrictions imposed by SLW. The Publisher requires neither a transfer of copyright nor an exclusive licence to publishing or commercial rights.
Moral rights remain with the authors in accordance with applicable law.
Upon acceptance for publication, authors grant the Publisher a non-exclusive licence to publish, reproduce, distribute, archive, index and make the article publicly available on the journal website, in scholarly repositories, indexing databases and other distribution channels related to SLW’s publishing activities.
The non-exclusive publishing licence leaves authors free to reuse, share, adapt and republish their own work without obtaining permission from SLW. The Creative Commons licence governing public reuse does not restrict the authors’ exercise of their own copyright.
Detailed declarations concerning copyright, co-author consent and the publishing licence granted to the Publisher may be submitted by authors during the submission, acceptance or publication process.

Creative Commons Licence
CC BY 4.0 is the licence used for all articles published from issue 1/2026 (Vol. 64) onwards. No alternative article-level licences are used for these publications.
Under CC BY 4.0, users may share and adapt the licensed material, including for commercial purposes, subject to the licence terms. Users must provide appropriate attribution, a link to the licence and an indication of any changes. SLW does not impose additional restrictions on uses permitted by the licence.
Archived articles previously released under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 retain that licence. The adoption of CC BY 4.0 does not retrospectively replace the licences of earlier publications or revoke permissions already granted under them.
The separate rights status of third-party materials is explained in the “Third-Party Materials” section below.

Self-Archiving and Repositories
Authors may deposit their work in institutional, subject, national and international repositories, as well as on personal websites and scholarly profiles.
Authors may deposit, in particular:
• the preprint, i.e. the version of the manuscript before peer review;
• the Author Accepted Manuscript, i.e. the version accepted after peer review and revisions but before final production;
• the Version of Record, i.e. the published version of the article.
SLW does not apply an embargo to the self-archiving of the published version of the article. Authors may deposit the Version of Record immediately after publication.
When depositing an article, authors should provide the full bibliographic reference, DOI, journal title and a link to the version published on the SLW website. The licence under which the article is made available should also be indicated.
Authors affiliated with the Military University of Technology may deposit publications in accordance with the rules of the MUT Knowledge Base and the MUT Open Access Policy.
The SLW Editorial Office seeks to make the journal’s self-archiving policy visible in external publishing policy registries, in particular in Open Policy Finder. Once the relevant record has been created or updated, the appropriate link will be provided on the journal website.

Third-Party Materials
Authors are responsible for obtaining any rights, permissions or licences required to use third-party materials in their articles, including photographs, maps, figures, diagrams, tables, charts, data, text excerpts and other copyright-protected materials.
If a specific item is not covered by the Creative Commons licence applied to the article, this must be clearly indicated in the caption, footnote or another appropriate place in the article.
Authors should mark third-party materials in a way that enables readers to determine who owns the rights, on what basis the material has been used and whether it may be reused.
A separate rights notice for an identified third-party item does not change the licence applicable to the authors’ original contribution or the authors’ retention of copyright in that contribution.

Licence Information in Articles
Copyright and licence information should be visible in the full text of each article, in particular in the PDF version and, where applicable, in the HTML version and article metadata.
Recommended wording for articles published under the CC BY 4.0 licence:
© The Author(s), [year]. This article is published in “Systemy Logistyczne Wojsk” / “Military Logistics Systems” under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).
For archived articles, the copyright holder and licence must be identified in accordance with the original publication arrangements. Updating the journal’s website does not change the copyright ownership or licensing of previously published articles.

Related Policies
Open access rules are described in the "Open Access Policy" section.
Rules on publication fees are described in the "Fees & Waivers" section.
Publication ethics, publication originality, plagiarism prevention, research data, personal data protection and digital preservation are described on separate journal policy pages.

Last updated: 25.09.2026.