Journal policies

Section policies

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

Peer-review process

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.

Open access policy

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

Authorship

The Author(s) explicitly reserve(s) copyright and all other intellectual property rights in the article except as specifically provided in aforementioned licence.

Changes to authorship

If there is a change to the authorship of the manuscript – the authors need to prepare a document that states the change, and the authors who are deleted from the authorship have to sign the document by themselves. If there are any situations when you want to add authors (especially after the review process and acceptance of the article for publication), we need a document signed by all authors that they agree to add the new author.

Corrections and retractions

All authors have an obligation to inform and cooperate with journal editors to provide prompt retractions or correction of errors in published works.

When an error is discovered in published or submitted work, the mistake should be admitted and an erratum or retraction will be published. Corrections should be approved by all authors of the original article, unless there is a particular reason why this is not possible. In these cases, any dissent among the authors should be noted in the published correction.

An Erratum, a Retraction, and Expressions of Concern will be published in such a manner, and it will be free to access.

  • A text will be provided with an appropriate title (Erratum, Retraction, or Expression of Concern) as well as information to identify the article that it refers to.
  • It will be published on a numbered page (both in print and online) and listed in the journal’s table of contents.
  • It will cite the original article and link electronically with the original electronic publication wherever possible.
  • It will enable the reader to identify and understand why the article is being retracted, or should explain the editor’s concerns about the contents of the article.
  • It will be in a form that enables indexing and abstracting services to identify and link to original publications.

Archives of Mechanics will issue retractions if:

  • there is clear proof that the results are unreliable, either because of misconduct (e.g., data fabrication) or honest error (e.g., miscalculation or experimental error);
  • the outcomes have been published before elsewhere without proper cross-referencing;
  • article contains plagiarism or reports unethical research;

Archives of Mechanics will issue errata upon the request of authors if:

  • a small portion of an otherwise reliable publication is misleading;
  • the author list is not valid (i.e., omitting somebody or including somebody who does not meet authorship criteria).

The new content will be reviewed and subject to the editorial approval considering the impact of the change.

Plagiarism

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

The manuscript should contain original research results.

The manuscript  should not have been previously published, nor is it submitted to another journal for consideration, neither in whole nor in part.

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).

Subscriptions to hard copies

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

Journal fees

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