Orclever Proceedings of Research and Development is a fully open-access, green + gold journal. Authors retain copyright, articles are licensed CC BY 4.0, and authors are free to self-archive any version of their article in any repository at any time — without embargo, without fee, and without asking permission.

Quick summary (DOAJ-style)

• Can authors deposit the submitted version (preprint)?  Yes.
• Can authors deposit the accepted version (postprint / AAM)?  Yes.
• Can authors deposit the published version (version of record / VOR)?  Yes.
• Embargo?  None, for any version.
• Can authors deposit in any repository?  Yes — personal, institutional, subject, preprint, commercial or non-commercial.
• Required licence on deposit?  CC BY 4.0 (same as the published article).
• Required attribution?  Cite the journal and DOI.

Which versions may be self-archived

All three article versions are free to self-archive:

• Preprint (submitted version) — the manuscript as originally submitted, before peer review. May be posted anywhere, at any time, including before submission, during review, and after the article is published.
• Postprint (accepted manuscript, AAM) — the author-prepared text after peer review but before typesetting. May be deposited in any repository immediately upon acceptance.
• Published version (version of record, VOR) — the final typeset PDF as published by Orclever Proceedings of Research and Development. May be deposited in any repository immediately upon publication.

Where articles may be self-archived

There is no restricted list. Authors may deposit any version in any repository, including (but not limited to):

• Preprint servers: arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, SSRN, engrXiv, OSF Preprints, Preprints.org.
• Institutional repositories run by the author's university, research institute, or funder.
• Subject repositories — PubMed Central, RePEc, CogPrints, PhilPapers, HAL (in France), LILACS, DergiPark, etc.
• General-purpose research repositories — Zenodo, Figshare, Dryad, OSF.
• Academic social networks — ResearchGate, Academia.edu, Mendeley.
• Personal and institutional websites, blogs, lab pages, and teaching materials.
• Orclever-run archives — every published article is additionally preserved in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine and on Orclever's own platform-level off-site backups. Authors do not need to do anything for this; it happens automatically.

Embargo

There is no embargo period. All three versions (preprint, postprint, and version of record) may be deposited immediately — before peer review, upon acceptance, or upon publication.

Licensing & reuse on deposited copies

Every article published in Orclever Proceedings of Research and Development is licensed Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Because CC BY 4.0 is irrevocable, any self-archived copy carries the same licence — authors therefore never lose the right to share their own work.

If depositing in a repository that asks for a licence declaration, authors should state “CC BY 4.0” (or, equivalently, “Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International”).

Required attribution on deposits

Any self-archived copy must include a citation to the published version, containing at minimum:

• the author(s),
• the article title,
• the journal name (Orclever Proceedings of Research and Development),
• year, volume, issue (or article number), page range,
• the article's DOI (linked as https://doi.org/{DOI}), and
• a link to the version of record on https://www.orclever.com/journals/oprd/article/{id}.

Article landing pages provide one-click citation export in BibTeX, RIS, and plain-text formats, suitable for pasting into the repository deposit form.

Authors depositing in funder-mandated repositories

The CC BY 4.0 licence and “no embargo” terms of Orclever Proceedings of Research and Development satisfy the open-access mandates of, among others:

• Plan S / cOAlition S (European funders, Wellcome, etc.) — CC BY required, no embargo, VOR deposit allowed. ✓
• NIH Public Access Policy — postprint or VOR deposit in PMC. ✓
• European Commission (Horizon Europe) — immediate open access, CC BY. ✓
• UKRI open-access policy — CC BY required, zero embargo. ✓
• TÜBİTAK Open Science Policy (Turkey) — CC BY 4.0 accepted, deposit in Aperta or institutional repository. ✓

Preprint DOI and versioning

If an author posts the preprint on a service that issues a preprint DOI (e.g. bioRxiv, arXiv, SSRN, Zenodo), that DOI should be recorded in the submission system so it can be linked to the final published DOI via Crossref's is-preprint-of relationship. This creates a permanent, discoverable trail between preprint and VOR.

Sherpa Romeo record

The journal is being registered with Sherpa Romeo to make these self-archiving terms machine-discoverable by institutional repositories, funder tools (FACT, etc.), and DOAJ. Until the Sherpa Romeo record is published, this page is the authoritative statement of the policy.

Contact

Questions about self-archiving, funder compliance, or specific repositories can be sent to the editorial office at editorial@orclever.com.

This repository (self-archiving) policy applies to all articles published in Orclever Proceedings of Research and Development. Policy URL: https://www.orclever.com/journals/oprd/repository-policy