The Ukrainian Chemistry Journal adheres to open access standards and provides free, immediate online access to all content upon publication. All full-text articles available in the Archives section of the website may be read, downloaded, copied, distributed, reproduced, adapted, printed, searched, cited, or linked to, and used for any other lawful purpose without prior permission from the author or publisher.
Licence Policy Change
Until 1 April 2026, all content published in the Ukrainian Chemistry Journal was released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 (CC BY-NC 3.0) license, which permitted free use of published content for non-commercial purposes provided that authorship was credited. However, the restriction on commercial use limited the inclusion of articles in a broader range of open collections, archives, and repositories. Furthermore, leading international research funding organizations now prefer or explicitly require publication under a CC BY license.
The ease and freedom of reuse of publications is our priority. The Editorial Board has therefore decided to replace the CC BY-NC 3.0 license with CC BY 4.0, which permits any use — including commercial — provided that clear attribution is given. This ensures the widest possible dissemination and use of research results, in keeping with the core purpose of open access — the removal of barriers to knowledge — and in line with the requirements of international bibliographic databases.
As of 1 April 2026, all articles and related materials published in the Ukrainian Chemistry Journal are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits anyone to read, download, copy, distribute, reproduce, adapt, print, search, cite, or link to the full text of published articles, including for commercial purposes, provided that:
- appropriate credit is given, including the author's name and copyright holder, copyright notice, license notice, disclaimer, and a reference to the material (the article published in this journal);
- a link to the license is provided: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- any changes made to the material are clearly indicated.
Articles published prior to 1 April 2026 remain governed by the terms of the CC BY-NC 3.0 license.
Copyright
By submitting a manuscript to the Ukrainian Chemistry Journal, the author retains full copyright while granting the V.I. Vernadsky Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the NAS of Ukraine, as publisher, the right of first publication, with the article simultaneously licensed under CC BY 4.0.
The author retains the right, without prior consent of the Editorial Board, to:
- use the article materials in whole or in part for educational purposes;
- use the article materials for writing dissertations;
- use the article materials for preparing abstracts, conference papers, and oral presentations;
- deposit electronic copies of the article (including the final published version from the journal's official website) on personal web resources of all authors, institutional web resources (including institutional repositories), and open non-commercial repositories (e.g., Zenodo, arXiv).
In all cases, a bibliographic reference to the article or a hyperlink to its electronic copy on the journal's official website is mandatory.
Copyright in the layout, typesetting, design, and cover of the publication belongs to the V.I. Vernadsky Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the NAS of Ukraine — founder and publisher of the Ukrainian Chemistry Journal.
All content is published in good faith; opinions expressed by authors reflect their own views and may not coincide with those of the Editorial Board or the founder.
This change in license policy reflects the journal's commitment to full open access principles and aligns with the requirements of international bibliographic databases and funding organizations.
For any queries regarding licensing, please contact the editorial office: ukrchemj@gmail.com