Open Access Policy

RC&C. Journal of Accounting and Management Control is a fully open-access journal, entirely free of charge for both readers and authors. The journal encourages the reuse and self-archiving of its articles in databases, repositories, directories, and international information systems.

RC&C. does not charge publication fees; there are no costs or payments required from authors, and access to its content is completely free and open. Therefore, the journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). The journal retains only the publication rights of the works.

Copyright

The works published in RC&C. Journal of Accounting and Management Control are subject to the following terms:

RC&C. Journal of Accounting and Management Control, through the Graduate Program in Accounting of the Department of Accounting – Sector of Applied Social Sciences – Federal University of Paraná, retains the ownership rights (copyright) of the published works and encourages and allows their reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), so that they may be copied, used, disseminated, transmitted, and publicly displayed, provided that: a. The authorship and original source of publication (journal, publisher, URL, and article DOI) are properly cited; b. They are not used for commercial or profit-making purposes; c. The existence and specifications of this license are mentioned. Each article published will be assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI).

Open Access Policy

RC&C. is an Open Access journal, freely available without time restrictions. The authors are permitted to deposit all versions of their article in an institutional or subject-specific repository: the preprint, the accepted manuscript, and the published article (final version).

Readers have the right to access and read all articles immediately and free of charge upon publication. This journal does not charge any fees for publication or access to its materials.

Self-Archiving and Archiving

RC&C. makes its articles available in reliable third-party repositories (e.g., SPELL, Latindex, Periódicos Capes, AmeliCA, institutional repositories, etc.) immediately after publication.

RC&C. is hosted on the UFPR Journal Portal, ensuring the preservation of its digital content through the Open Journal System and the PKP PN network.
The content is also preserved by the Cariniana Network, which is part of the LOCKSS program. Therefore, in the event of a server incident, the journal’s digital files are safeguarded within the Cariniana Network using the LOCKSS program.

Machine Readability and Interoperability

Our open-access policy also ensures the readability of files and their metadata, promoting interoperability through the OAI-PMH open data and open-source protocol.

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered on this journal’s website will be used exclusively for the purposes stated by this publication and will not be made available for any other purpose or to third parties.