Authors who publish in Scientific Works «Adult Education: Theory, Experience, Prospects» retain copyright in their works.

The submission of a manuscript to the journal and its later acceptance for publication mean that the author(s) give the journal a non-exclusive licence for the first publication of the article, its distribution, storage, reproduction, and presentation in open access on the official journal website, as well as in scientometric, bibliographic, abstracting, indexing, library, and repository systems.

The author(s) also agree to the placement and distribution of:

• the electronic version of the article;
• the article metadata;
• abstracts, keywords, and bibliographic descriptions;
• the English version of the title, abstract, keywords, and other supporting elements;
• where this is part of the journal’s editorial practice, an agreed translation of the article or its separate parts.

Authors may, without additional permission from the editorial office:

• use the article materials in full or in part in their own research, teaching, and professional work;
• include the article materials in dissertations, monographs, teaching materials, conference papers, presentations, and other author works;
• place the published version of the article on personal websites, institutional websites, institutional repositories, researcher profiles, non-commercial open access archives, and other academic platforms.

In all cases of reposting, sharing, or reuse of the article, the author must provide:

• the full bibliographic reference;
• the title of the journal as the place of first publication;
• the article DOI;
• a link to the official version of the article on the journal website.

The author(s) are responsible for ensuring that the submitted work is original, does not infringe copyright, related rights, or other rights of third parties, and that all necessary permissions have been obtained for the use of illustrations, tables, schemes, photographs, tests, instruments, text extracts, and other materials that may belong to third parties.

If the article includes third-party materials that are not covered by CC BY 4.0, the author must clearly mark this in the text of the article and provide the editorial office with confirmation that such materials are used lawfully.