Open Access Policy

The JTIT is fully open access journal and 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.

Rights of Authors

Authors retain the following rights:
• copyright, and other proprietary rights relating to the article, such as patent rights,
• the right to use the substance of the article in own future works, including lectures and books,
• the right to reproduce the article for own purposes, provided the copies are not offered for sale,
• the right to self-archive the article,
• the right to supervision over the integrity of the content of the work and its fair use.

Conditions concerning to the use of papers published in journals issued by the National Institute of Telecommunications
National Institute of Telecommunications in Warsaw owns economic copyrights to papers created by its employees published in journals issued by NIT. Published papers are protected under the law on copyright and related rights.
No permission is required for transitory or incidental reproduction of works, such reproduction having no independent economic significance but constituting an integral and fundamental part of a manufacturing process the sole purpose of which is to enable:
• transmission of work through the data transmission system between third parties by an intermediary, or
• the use of work in compliance with law.

Research and educational institutions may, for the purposes of teaching or conducting their own research, use of published works in original and in translation, and prepare for this purpose copies of fragments of disseminated work.

Libraries, archives and schools may:

1. provide free access to copies of disseminated works within the scope of their tasks as stated under their statute;
2. make or mandate making copies of disseminated works in order to supplement them, maintain or protect one's own collections;
3. make the collection available for research or learning purposes through information technology system terminals (endings) located on the premises of those entities.

According to the Law, disseminated work means a piece of work which has been made available to the public in any way by its author's permission.

To the extent not covered by the statutory fair use of works, the placing by the National Institute of Telecommunications in the Internet of the papers to which the Institute suitable owns economic copyrights or suitable rights under license and published in journals issued by the National Institute of Telecommunications is to be construed as an offer to conclude a license agreement for conditions set out below. By downloading or reproduction of the paper, which has a machine-readable CC licensing information in the article level metadata, is deemed to implicitly conclude a license agreement on the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0):

1. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Public License, the Licensor hereby grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, non-sublicensable, non-exclusive, irrevocable license to exercise the Licensed Rights in the Licensed Material (fields of exploitation) to:
• reproduce and Share the Licensed Material, in whole or in part; and
• produce, reproduce, and Share Adapted Material.
2. Media and formats; technical modifications allowed. The Licensor authorizes You to exercise the Licensed Rights in all media and formats whether now known or hereafter created, and to make technical modifications necessary to do so.
3. The remaining part of the license (CC BY 4.0) have been set in the following website https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/  or other website selected by the Creative Commons.
4. The terms of license have been prepared in Polish and English languages.

The license terms file is available here - click to download.