Author's rights and liabilities

Articles are published in The Yearbook of Lithuanian History free of charge. No submission or publication fees apply to authors, nor is any financial reimbursement made for published texts. All authors of texts published in separate issues of the journal have the right to receive one printed copy of that issue free of charge. 

The Yearbook of Lithuanian History publishes original, hitherto unpublished scholarly articles. The authors of articles and other texts published in the journal may be established or early career scholars as well as doctoral students. When submitting the manuscript to the journal, the author confirms that they are authorised by any co-authors to enter into such agreements, and guarantees on behalf of their co-authors and themselves that:

  1. He (she) has every right to enter into this agreement and act according to the outlined rights. He (she) is the sole author of the article and has every right to enter into this agreement and grant rights to the Lithuanian Institute of History without violating any other obligations.
  2. The article is an original work and does not violate the rights of any authors or other third parties.
  3. The article does not contain any illegitimate information, defamatory claims, disinformation or data that if published would violate contractual, confidentiality or anonymity obligations.
  4. Authors agree with the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License contract, according to which the article published in the journal is licensed and gives the Lithuanian Institute of History the right to publish the hitherto unpublished original manuscript, including the summary, which is one of its inseperable parts, all related additional material and later error corrections, if such were needed, in the journal, as per Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (CC-BY-4.0). The author retains all copyright and neighbouring rights. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)
  5. When disseminating the article, its author(s) must be referenced, along with the title of the printed article, the journal and DOI (digital object identifier).
  6. Users are free to do the following with material presented in the article: share – copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially; adapt – remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
  7. The author must inform the editorial board if the article has been submitted to another publisher.