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1. The author declares that the Work is free of copyright or other legal defects, it was neither published anywhere else, nor simultaneously offered for publication, except the platforms of standard scientific pre-submission communications (e.g. SSRN, ResearchGate, Academia).
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• the Work is not an Employee work where the employee would not be entitled to exercise the rights to the Work,
• using of the Work within the scope of the granted license is not limited by the conditions of provided grant or other financial support
• using of the Work within the scope of the granted license is not limited by the third parties’ rights (e.g. copyright, the right to the protection of personal data),
• the Work is not the work of joint authors, where the other joint authors would not agree to grant the license.

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4. The author agrees that if the Work is accepted for publication, the proposal to conclude a license agreement for the Work will be on his/her behalf aimed at an indefinite number of persons, while the content of the agreement will be determined by reference to the publicly available licence conditions Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (available from: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
5. If any of the author’s statements prove to be untrue, the author is aware that he/she is liable for the resulting damage, including the costs associated with any litigation and damage caused by a violation of the Journal’s and/or MUNI’s reputation.
6. Author agrees to pay article processing fee of 50€ after the article is accepted for publication. Author will be contacted by the technical editor about the payment details.
7. Author understands that starting in 2024, the journal is published continuously, meaning that article is published in one of the journal´s issues as soon as the article is accepted and ready for publication.

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3. The reputation of MUNI and/or Journal shall not be negatively affected by the further use of the Work.

Other

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2. If the Work is rejected for publication in the Journal, the license shall be, at the moment of the decision of rejection, restricted in such a way that it shall cover use of Work only in the necessary extent within related editorial activities (e.g. review and archiving).

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Publication fee

From January 15th of 2024, the journal will have Article Proceesing Fees (APC) set at the price of 50 EUR. The fees will be paid after the submission is accepted for publication. Fees are applicaple for submissions send after this date. You will be contacted with payment information after the review process is finalized.  

Refund of the APC fees

Refunds are handled on a case-by-case basis and once an article has been published we cannot initiate a refund.

Studia sportiva will refund an APC if an error on our part has resulted in a failure to publish an article under the open access terms. A refund will only be offered if these errors have not been corrected within 30 days of publication. If you become aware of an error, please contact us immediately. 

APC fee will not be refunded when articles are retracted as a result of author error or misconduct (see Publication Ethics | Studia sportiva)