Prior to acceptance and publication in Russian Social and Humanitarian Studies, authors may make their submissions available as preprints on personal or public websites. 

Authors have the right to post their work on the Internet (for example, on such websites as https://preprints.ru/, https://preprints.org/ etc., in an institute repository or on a personal website) before and during the process of its review by the journal (with an indication of its preprint status), since this may lead to a productive discussion and more links to the work.

As part of submission process, authors are required to confirm that the submission has not been previously published, nor has been submitted. After a manuscript has been published in Russian Social and Humanitarian Studies we suggest that the link to the article on journal's website and DOI is used when the article is shared on personal or public websites.

Preprints are published under the CC BY 4.0.license

Questions and comments should be sent to the author's contact address or to the editorial office by e-mail: editor@soc-journal.ru

In accordance with the Sherpa Romeo database:

Preprint - In the context of Open Access, a preprint is a draft of an academic article or other publication before it has been submitted for peer-review or other quality assurance procedure as part of the publication process. Preprints cover initial and successive drafts of articles, working papers or draft conference papers.

Postprint - The final version of an academic article or other publication - after it has been peer-reviewed and revised into its final form by the author. As a general term this covers both the author's final version and the version as published, with formatting and copy-editing changes in place.