The Financial and Economic Review (FER) applies the following copyright, licencing, and archiving rules in line with international open access publishing standards and the ethical guidelines of the journal. These principles ensure transparency, author’s rights protection, and long-term accessibility of published research.
The rules detailed below must be accepted by authors submitting a manuscript to the Financial and Economic Review (FER):
1. By sending an article to the FER, authors confirm that the article is their own original intellectual product and that no rights of a third party are harmed by the publication. In case of any claim by a third party, authors shall take full responsibility including any financial consequences.
2. Authors’ name(s), ORCID ID, and their institutional affiliation are made available both in the printed issue and on the website (in the format agreed in advance).
3. Authors are allowed to publish their paper in another publication in the same form as the version published in this journal, with a reference to this original publication.
4. Authors are encouraged to share their articles published in our journal on online platforms that share research results, such as ResearchGate or institutional repositories, provided that proper reference is made to the original publication in FER and a link to the journal’s official website is included.
5. The copyright of articles published in the FER remains with the author. The FER has the right of first publication. The published work is licensed under Creative Commons License “Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International" (CC BY-NC 4.0). This means that copying, redistribution, remixing, transformation and building upon the published work is allowed for any purpose except commercial purposes as long as proper credit is given to the author, a link to the licence is provided, and any changes made to the original work are indicated.
6. The journal is preserved in the Repository of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Its issues are included in REAL-J (collection of digitalised and digitally produced journals and periodicals), while individual articles are available in REAL (basic collection).
Furthermore, based on a mutual cooperation agreement the Electronic Periodicals Archive and Database (EPA NSZL), an initiative of the Hungarian Electronic Library coordinated by the National Széchenyi Library, also ensures long-term article preservation.
7. Each article in the Study, Our Vision and Essay column is assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to guarantee permanent access and citation.
8. Authors using third-party materials (e.g. figures, tables, or data) shall be responsible for obtaining all necessary permissions and ensuring compliance with copyright laws.