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Mineralia Slovaca is a scientific peer-reviewed journal, published by the State Geological Institute of Dionýz Štúr in printed and online versions. The journal publishes original scientific papers, expanding the boundaries of knowledge within the geosciences. It is issued since 1969. Archive of articles on Mineralia Slovaca website enables the online access to full-text papers of all previous years.
Mineralia Slovaca publishes original research papers, review papers and short communications in all branches of geology (e.g. mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry, geochronology, geology of mineral deposits, stratigraphy, structural geology, palaeontology, hydrogeology, engineering geology, sedimentology, geophysics, tectonics, regional geology, etc.). Articles are published in English, exceptionally in Slovak. All papers are subject to peer review and acceptance is based solely on scientific quality.
Papers are published in a diamond open access format. Publishing is free of charge – there are no Article Processing Charges (APCs). Thanks to Crossref membership from 2022 onwards, new published papers have a registered DOI identifier.
Review process
Manuscripts are subject to rigorous peer-review by at least two reviewers. Authors propose 2 – 3 reviewers when submitting the manuscript to the editors. The submitted manuscript is reviewed by the scientific editor (and, if necessary, another expert from the editorial board) to assess whether it meets the criteria and the authors’ guidelines. After manuscripts are checked for plagiarism, the Editorial Board decides on the selection of reviewers, taking into account the competence, specialisation, and possible conflict of interest of the potential reviewers. The names of the reviewers may be kept secret from the authors (blind peer review).
Periodicity
The journal is published twice a year, in the 2nd and 4th quarters.
Open access principles
Mineralia Slovaca provides immediate open access to its content. It allows users to read, download, copy, print, distribute, place in repositories, search or link to the full text of these articles, search and index them, transfer them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose without financial, legal or technical barriers, provided that they are adequately cited in accordance with scholarly practice.
Fees
Articles are published in the form of Diamond Open Access. There is no charge for publication – there are no Article Processing Charges (APCs) or article submission fees.
Legal conditions and scientific ethics
The author(s) are responsible for the accuracy and originality of the data in the submitted manuscript. By submitting a manuscript, the author(s) agree that the manuscript is their own work, consistent with ethical principles, does not contain misleading or false data, and has not been or will not be published elsewhere or in a foreign language in its full length, nor under consideration by reviewers for other publication (except for abstracts, conference proceedings, preprints, theses, or technical reports).
Licences
Mineralia Slovaca uses the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Under this license, the author(s) retain ownership and copyright of the content of the papers, but allow anyone (third party) to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute and/or copy the content as long as the original authors and original source are properly cited. No permission is required from the authors or publisher afterwards. The author(s) grant the State Geological Institute of Dionýz Štúr a non-exclusive license to publish the paper and to be identified as the original publisher. The authors grant the State Geological Institute of Dionýz Štúr the commercial rights to publish copies of the journal for sale to libraries and individuals. For any reuse or modification of the work, users must clarify the licensing terms under which their work is published. This licence does not apply to material, or parts of material, that have already been published elsewhere and/or the use of which is subject to an appropriate exception or restriction. The Creative Commons license was developed to facilitate open access and unrestricted reuse of original works of all types. Use of this standard license for published works ensures that they will be freely and royalty-free available in perpetuity enabling widespread access to evidence-based knowledge.
Indexing
As of 2017, the journal is indexed, abstracted and made accessible by the SCOPUS and EBSCO databases. The journal is also indexed by the GeoRef database.
Mineralia Slovaca (ISSN 1338-3523; ISSN (online) 0369-2086)
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