Open access & Copyright

Geographica Pannonica is an open access peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia.

The journal publishes original scientific articles and review papers in geography and geosciences, including physical geography, human geography, regional geography, environmental geography, spatial planning, and related disciplines.

  • Open access policy

Journal Geographica Pannonica is published under an Open Access licence. All its content is available free of charge. Users can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search the full text of articles, as well as to establish HTML links to them, without having to seek the consent of the author or publisher.

The right to use content without consent does not release the users from the obligation to give the credit to the journal and its content in a manner described under Licensing.

  • Article Processing Charges

Geographica Pannonica does not charge any article processing charges (APC). Manuscript submission, editorial processing, peer review, and publication are free of charge for all authors. There are no submission fees or any other hidden costs. 

  • Archiving digital version

In accordance with law, digital copies of all published volumes are archived in the legal deposit libraries – the National Library of Serbia and Matica srpska, and concurrently in the Repository of SCIndeks – The Serbian Citation Index as the primary full text database.

  • Article processing charge

Journal Geographica Pannonica does not charge authors or any third party for publication. Both manuscript submission and processing services, and article publishing services are free of charge. There are no hidden costs whatsoever.

  • Copyright

Authors retain copyright of the published papers and grant to the publisher the non-exclusive right to publish the article, to be cited as its original publisher in case of reuse, and to distribute it in all forms and media.

  • Licensing

The published articles will be distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY). It is allowed to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, and remix, transform, and build upon it for any purpose, even commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given to the original author(s), a link to the license is provided and it is indicated if changes were made.

Users are required to provide full bibliographic description of the original publication (authors, article title, journal title, volume, issue, pages), as well as its DOI code. In electronic publishing, users are also required to link the content with both the original article published in Geographica Pannonica and the licence used.

Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal’s published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

  • Self-archiving policy

Authors are permitted to deposit author’s post-print (accepted version) of their work in an institutional repository, subject-based repository, author’s personal website (including social networking sites, such as ResearchGate, Academia.edu, etc.), and/or departmental website at any time after the acceptance of the manuscript.

Full bibliographic information (authors, article title, journal title, volume, issue, pages) about the original publication must be provided and links must be made to the article’s DOI and the license.

  • Disclaimer

The views expressed in the published works do not express the views of the Editors and the Editorial Staff. The authors take legal and moral responsibility for the ideas expressed in the articles. Publisher shall have no liability in the event of issuance of any claims for damages. The Publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.