The journal is published on an open access basis under the CC BY license. This means that all the content of the journal is available free of charge to users, including institutions. Users can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search the full text of each article, as well as publish links to it without obtaining permission from the publisher or author.
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The journal was published under the CC BY-ND license from 2016 to 2023. The current license was introduced in 2024.
In 2024, "Roczniki Historyczne" was been included in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).