Open Access and Data Policy (FAIR Principles)

The Editorial Board of the collection of scientific papers «Proceedings of Vasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv» supports the principles of Open Science and is guided by the international FAIR principles (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, Reusability) as outlined in The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship.

The FAIR Principles:

  • Findability – Research datasets should be deposited in a reliable repository and assigned a persistent identifier (DOI), allowing them to be identified and cited independently of the scientific article itself.
  • Accessibility – Data and their metadata must be accessible through standardized mechanisms. Access to metadata should be preserved even in cases where the data themselves become unavailable (e.g., due to ethical, legal, or other restrictions).
  • Interoperability – Data must be presented in open formats using standardized metadata and terminological standards generally accepted in the scientific community (vocabularies, thesauri, ontologies).
  • Reusability – Data must be accompanied by detailed metadata that ensures automated (machine-readable) processing, enabling other researchers to understand the context and correctly reuse the data.

A key element of data openness in the «Proceedings of Vasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv» is the assignment of a DOI to all scientific articles. Furthermore, the Editorial Board encourages authors to deposit the research datasets underlying their research, as well as their own articles, in open databases and repositories. These include:

  • International Repositories:
    • Zenodo – A universal open-access repository (CERN) that provides DOI assignment;
    • Figshare – Cloud storage supporting all formats and data visualization;
    • Dryad – A specialized repository for peer-reviewed scientific data;
    • Open Science Framework (OSF) – A platform for managing the full research cycle and storing project documentation;
    • Mendeley Data – An open repository for research data sharing.
  • National Resources:
    • DataverseUA – An open data repository for researchers of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine;
    • UA Open Archive – A national portal for open access to scientific works.
  • Institutional Repositories:
    • Electronic Portal of the V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine;
    • Institutional repositories of scientific institutions.