EDITORIAL POLICY

European Countryside is an international on-line scientific journal focusing on rural research. It publishes theoretical and empirical articles, considering the multi-functional rural development, regional aspects of rural problems and results of individual disciplines directed towards the countryside. The journal concerns European rural investigations. European Countryside supports European integration processes, collaboration of European experts and the idea of Europe of Regions.

Publishing in European Countryside is open for experts from universities, research institutes and other scientific institutions regardless of their nationality, ethnicity or religion. The Journal publishes individual articles, mono-thematic issues, conference papers, articles based on theses or research reports. Only technical criteria as quality, language level and technical competence are decisive for accepting or refection of the article. The Executive Board of the Journal decides on the base of at least two independent reviews. The review process is confidential.

European Countryside is a free-access journal. It means that any reader with the internet access can read or print out the papers without any registration. The authors will gain unlimited opportunity to be read, quoted and networked. Therefore the acceptance of the article for publication is conditioned by payment of the publication costs by the authors or their institutions as a rule. On the other hand, all published articles are at disposal free of charge to the widest spectrum of readers.