Journal Policies

All articles are open submissions, indexed, and peer-reviewed.

Each paper published in the journal is subjected to an anonymous peer-review procedure and evaluated at least by two independent reviewers from outside the author's affiliation. Reviewers are asked to provide their opinion and recommendation within four weeks. The reviews constitute the basis for the decision of the Editorial Committee to publish (or not) the paper.

Archives of Mechanics provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

By default, the papers are published under the CC BY 4.0 (Attribution) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

No article processing fee is charged to the authors (so-called Diamond Open Access).

The open access licensing applies to the papers published after mid-2022 (volume 74, issue 4). Full texts of the papers published since 1996 (volume 48) are freely available online.

The authors are allowed (and encouraged) to deposit the published version (Version of Record) of their paper in an institutional or other repository.

Subscription to the hard copies of the journal is possible (and encouraged) and is subject to a subscription fee.

Copyright on any open access article in the Archives of Mechanics published by the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences is retained by the author(s) (or their employers, if applicable).

The authors grant the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences a license to publish the article and identify themselves as the original publisher.

The authors also grant any user the right to use the article freely as long as its integrity is maintained and its original authors, citation details, and publisher are identified.

The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International CC BY 4.0 formalizes these and other terms and conditions of publishing articles.

Exceptions to copyright policy

For the articles which were previously published, before mid-2022 (volume 74, issue 2-3), policies that are different from the above. In all such, access to these articles is free from fees or any other access restrictions.

Permissions for the use of the texts published in that journal may be sought directly from the Editorial Office of Archives of Mechanics

The publication of articles in the Archives of Mechanics is free of charge.

We do care about ethics in the scientific world, and do our best to provide an ethical publication process.

If there is a plagiarism detected in the article, the manuscript will be rejected and any future publication of this manuscript will be suspended (even after corrections).

Annual subscription rate for the hard copies of Archives of Mechanics in 2025 is 230 Euro (6 issues a year) and 41 Euro for single issue (both including postage outside Poland).

Subscription orders for all journals published by the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research should be sent directly to the Editorial Office.

Subscriptions Contact

Archives of Mechanics
Institute of Fundamental Technological Research
Pawińskiego 5b
02-106 Warsaw
POLAND
Phone: (+48) 22 826 60 22
archmech@ippt.pan.pl