Problems of Interaction of Art, Pedagogy and Theory and Practice of Education

Open Access Policy
The journal supports the principles of free dissemination of scientific information and global knowledge exchange: access to articles is free for readers (no paid access, no registration required), all publications are available in full text on the journal website.

All issues of the collection of scientific articles "Problems of Interaction of Art, Pedagogy and Theory and Practice of Education" provide a policy of immediate open access to all published materials (license type - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License)

Copyright protection policy
According to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) authors who publish their articles in the journal "Problems of Interaction of Art, Pedagogy and Theory and Practice of Education" (open access journals) retain the following rights:

Authors retain the rights to the authorship of their article and grant the journal "Problems of Interaction of Art, Pedagogy and Theory and Practice of Education" the right of first publication of the manuscript of their article under the terms of the Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Attribution License, which allows other persons to freely distribute the published work with a mandatory reference to the author of the original work and the first original publication in the journal "Problems of Interaction of Art, Pedagogy and Theory and Practice of Education". Information on the retention of authorship is provided on the title page of the article.
Authors reserve the right to enter into separate agreements for non-exclusive and non-commercial distribution of their article in the form in which it was published in the journal "Problems of Interaction of Art, Pedagogy and Theory and Practice of Education" (for example, to place the article in electronic libraries, archives and catalogs), provided that a full reference to the first original publication in the journal "Problems of Interaction of Art, Pedagogy and Theory and Practice of Education" is mandatory.
The journal "Problems of Interaction of Art, Pedagogy and Theory and Practice of Education" allows authors to store and place the final version of the manuscript accepted for publication (Author’s Accepted Manuscript, AAM) in institutional or thematic repositories. The placement of the AAM or the published version (Version of Record) must be accompanied by a full bibliographic description; DOI; a mandatory reference to the official publication in the journal.

The editorial board of the journal retains the publishing rights to:

the compiled original articles and the entire issue of the journal;
magazine design, as well as original illustrative and additional materials;
reprints of the magazine in printed and electronic form.

Publication Ethics
The journal “Problems of Interaction of Art, Pedagogy and Theory and Practice of Education” adheres to the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), as well as modern approaches to research evaluation.
Basic principles:

Honesty and integrity – rejection of fabrication, falsification, manipulation of data and references;
Transparency – чіткий опис процедур подання, рецензування, прийняття/відхилення статей;
Impartiality – assessment of scientific content, not the status or institutional affiliation of the author;
Confidentiality – protection of the rights of authors and reviewers, non-disclosure of sensitive information;
Response to violations – consideration of cases of plagiarism, duplicate publications, violations of authorship, conflict of interest, etc. in accordance with the COPE's Code of Conduct and Recommendations for Journal Editors: https://publicationethics.org/membership/code-of-conduct

Principles of Research Assessment
The journal supports the principles of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, which are used in the evaluation of manuscripts – do not rely solely on formal metrics. The main focus is on:

the content of the research;
the novelty and importance of the results;
the quality of the methodology;
the contribution to the development of historical musicology.

The journal strives to ensure FAIR principles for research information:

Findable (searchable) – through the provision of full metadata (full name, ORCID, affiliations, annotations, keywords, DOI);
Accessible (accessible) – through open access without financial barriers;
Interoperable (compatible) – through unified bibliography formats (APA), metadata and indexing in international databases;
Reusable (suitable for reuse) – through clear licensing terms (Creative Commons) and sufficient description of methods, data and sources.

Plagiarism Policy
Plagiarism is any appropriation of someone else's text, ideas, results, or data without proper attribution, including verbatim borrowing without quotation marks and attribution; paraphrasing without attribution; using someone else's ideas, sheet music, examples, illustrations, diagrams without attribution. Self-plagiarism – reuse of one’s own previously published texts without proper reference.

Editorial review and actions
All manuscripts are checked for textual matches, in particular, using Turnitin. The editorial team analyzes the nature of matches, not just the percentage.
In case of suspected plagiarism:

before publication the article may be returned to the authors for significant revision or rejected;
after publication the article may be retracted, which is publicly announced.

Use of artificial intelligence (AI policy)
The editorial team requires authors to be fully transparent about their use of artificial intelligence (AI) in research and manuscript preparation. Artificial intelligence (AI) can be considered solely as an auxiliary tool (“thinking partner”) that can contribute to:

improving scientific writing;
searching and organizing literature;
data management.

However, AI cannot be the author of the article, should not replace human intellectual contribution or create fabricated content. The authors of the articles bear full responsibility for the content, reliability and ethics of the manuscript.
Responsible use of AI tools such as Semantic Scholar, Petal, Elicit, ResearchRabbit etc. is allowed for:

searching, reviewing and synthesizing scientific literature;
building bibliographic links;
organizing materials and supporting text structuring;
language editing (spelling, grammar, style checking) with mandatory subsequent control by the author.

Authors should not:

use AI to generate the main scientific content (formulation of results, conclusions, interpretations) without in-depth authorial work;
create artificial or inaccurate references using AI;
pass off AI-generated materials (text, images, musical examples) as real empirical or archival data without a clear explanation of their nature.

Declaration of AI Use
If AI tools were used significantly in the preparation of the article (e.g. for text editing, structuring, bibliography analysis), the author should indicate this in a note and indicate the name of the tool and the purpose of its use. Opaque use of AI, which leads to distortion of content, references or data, is considered a violation of publication ethics.

Retraction of articles and consideration of complaints
The grounds for consideration of complaints by the editorial board are reports of:

plagiarism or significant incorrect borrowings;
falsification or fabrication of data;
significant errors affecting the conclusions;
undeclared conflicts of interest;
unauthorized use of materials of other persons;
violation of the rules of authorship (exclusion of legal co-authors, “gift” authorship);
other serious violations of publication ethics.

Reports can be sent by authors, reviewers, readers, institutions.

Review procedure
The editorial board considers each appeal promptly and impartially, following the recommendations of COPE.
If necessary, requests additional explanations from the authors, consults with independent experts, checks additional sources (original data, drafts, archival documents, etc.). During the review, the controversial article may be temporarily marked accordingly on the website.
Based on the results of the review, the editorial board may:

make corrections – if minor errors are found that do not change the main conclusions;
publish a statement – if there are suspicions, but the evidence is not sufficient for an unambiguous conclusion.

The editorial board may retract the article if:

serious plagiarism is found;
data fabrication/falsification is confirmed;
significant errors are made that invalidate the results;
there are other gross violations of ethics.

In the event of a retraction, a notice of retraction is published on the journal website, indicating :

bibliographic data of the article;
the reason for the retraction (in general terms, without violating the rights of individuals);
the initiator of the retraction (author/editors/other party).

The electronic version of the article marked as Retracted is, if possible, stored with an appropriate note in the archive of scientific history.

Conflict of interest
The journal strives to minimize editorial endogeneity – a situation where manuscripts are evaluated and published within a narrow circle of interconnected individuals. The proportion of articles in which at least one of the authors is a member of the editorial board, editor or reviewer of the journal should not exceed approximately 25%.
A conflict of interest for reviewers arises if the reviewer:

participated in the preparation of the article;
will receive direct benefit from the publication;
has close family ties with the author;
is or was the scientific supervisor / mentee of the author;
is a close colleague (joint projects, one research group, etc.);
is in another situation that may cast doubt on his impartiality.

In case of doubt, the reviewer is obliged to consult with the editor and, if necessary, refuse to review.

Authors must declare potential conflicts of interest (financial, institutional, personal, academic) or their absence in the Application Form when submitting the manuscript.

The editorial board will not appoint a person with an obvious conflict of interest regarding the author(s) as a reviewer. In the event of an undeclared conflict of interest, the editorial board may:

replace the reviewer;
reconsider the previously made decision.