ABOUT
Basic Information
Journal description
Biblioteka Regionalisty is a yearbook published both in paper and electronic version presenting scientific articles in open access on the Lower Silesian Digital Library platform. All publications are prepared in accordance with the applicable publication ethics standards and assessed using double-blind review process method. A prerequisite for their publication is obtaining two positive reviews.
The journal is included in the list of scientific journals of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education with 20 points.
Biblioteka Regionalisty has been published continuously since 2005.
ISSN: 2081-4461 (print) | e-ISSN: 2449-9781 (online)
Aims and Scope
Biblioteka Regionalisty is a platform of exchange of knowledge and popularisation of surveys results conducted in the field of modern economy, human geography and spatial planning. The journal is addressed to the international community and for this reason the articles are solely published in English in it.
The subject of the journal covers such aspects as: regional policy, spatial development, with a particular focus on problems of local and regional development, knowledge economy, public administration, finances of local government units, safety in space as well as creativity and innovation in economy.
Open Access Policy
Biblioteka Regionalisty is an open access scientific journal published under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). It means the entire content of the journal is available free of charge for users. It can be read, downloaded, copied, distributed, printed as well as a full text of each article can be searched and links to it can be published without the necessity to obtain the publisher’s or an author’s consent. A user has access to the materials without financial, legal and technical limits preserving all copyright. Pre-2020 issues were published under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).
The content of all journal issues is available free of charge in an electronic version on the resources of the Lower Silesian Digital Library.
Publication Schedule
Publication frequency: 1 issue / year
Article submission: by January 31
Review process: up to 3 weeks
Issue release: by December 30
Information on the current acceptance of articles for the journal is placed on the main page.
Publication Ethics
Editorial board take care of high quality and accuracy of scientific articles published in the Regional Journal. To this end the editorial board take measures to maintain ethical standards for scientific work such as enforcement of these rules, both with respect to the authors of the publications and reviewers.
Editorial board implement and apply procedures developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Publisher
Publishing House of the University of Economics started its activity in 1955.
Its purpose is to popularize research results, scientific and research and intellectual achievements of academics from Poland and abroad with the highest substantive and publishing level of publications. The range of topics is within the following research disciplines: economy and finance, management and quality sciences as well as food and nutrition technology.
There are over 100 titles published annually. They are mainly monographs, academic books, course books and scientific journals.
There are established procedures of reviewing scientific works and principles of publishing ethics with respect to all publications in accordance with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) in order to prevent abusive publishing practices.
Editorial Board
Tasks and competences of the Editorial Board
Scientific board of the journal has a role of an opinion-providing body of the editor-in-chief. The tasks of the scientific board are in particular:
- ensuring the substantive level of the journal,
- guaranteeing the observation of principles of publishing ethics and informing the editor-in-chief about noticed cases of scientific dishonesty,
- taking care of the image of the journal and its recognition in national and international scientific environment.
Scientific board is composed of research workers from Polish and foreign scientific centres:
Petr Hlavácek – Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic
Hee-Jung Jun – Department of Public Administration, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
Andrzej Klasik – The Karol Godula Upper Silesian Academy of Entrepreneurship (USAE) in Chorzów, Poland
Stanisław Korenik – Wrocław University of Economics, Poland
Oğuz Özbek – Pamukkale University, Turkey
Andrey Pochtovyuk – Kremenchuk Mykhailo Ostrogradskyi National University, Ukraine
Janusz Słodczyk – University of Opole, Poland
Editors
Stanisław Korenik
Editor In-Chief
Wrocław University of Economics
Piotr Hajduga
Managing Editor
Wrocław University of Economics
Alicja Zakrzewska-Półtorak
Wrocław University of Economics
Tetyana Stefanovska
National University of Life and Environmental Sciences
of Ukraine
Tasks and competence of the Editors
Editors organize the work of the journal as well as substantive and technical service of the publishing procedure.
Editor-in-chief takes all decisions concerning the work of the journal and is responsible in particular of:
- managing the work of the editorial office of the journal,
- conducting supervision over the quality of articles submitted for publication,
- working on smooth functioning of the publication process in coordination with the Publishing House.
Managing Editor is responsible in particular of:
- collecting submitted articles and sending them to reviewers,
- informing authors about further processing or rejecting an article,
- conducting correspondence concerning current affairs of the journal,
- organizing the stability of the journal publishing process once a year and updating the web page.
Prof. zw. dr hab. Stanisław Korenik
In 1988 he obtained the title of Masters of Economics at the Faculty of National Economy of Wrocław University of Economics. He started scientific and educational work as a junior assistant at Wrocław University of Economics on 15 February 1989. In 1992-1993 he took part in the scientific internship under the TEMPUS programme at the University in Lille I in France. After having obtained a degree of a doctor in economy in June 1994 he served as an assistant professor till October 2001. In January 1999 he obtained his habilitation in economy and from October 2001 he started working as an associate professor. He was awarded the title of professor of economic sciences by the President of Poland on 24 April 2012 and he was employed as a full professor on 1 January 2013. Now he works at the Department of Spatial Economy and Local Government Administration of the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, which he has been in charge of since 2004. He also worked at the University of Management and Finance in Wrocław from 1998 to 2012, among others as a dean and a vice-rector. From 2004 to 2005 he worked as an associate professor and at the same time as a head at the Department of Regional Economy at the Institute of Economics of Swietokrzyska Academy of Education. From 1 October 2012 to 30 September 2014 he was employed as a professor at the Faculty of Economics of the Opole University. He is a member of diverse scientific bodies (for example Committee for Spatial Economy and Regional Planning of Polish Academy of Sciences) and bodies working for business practice (among others supervisory boards). He has taken part in the implementation of a dozen research grants of national or international scope performing different (leadership, executive, organizational) functions.
Reviewers
List of reviewers cooperating with the journal:
Peter Walther Baur - University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Adam Drobniak - University of Economics in Katowice, Poland
Marcos Ferasso - Community University of Chapeco Region, Brazil
Krystian Heffner - University of Economics in Katowice, Poland
Rachmat Hidayat - University of Jember, Indonesia
Marian Kachniarz - Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Poland
Magdalena Kalisiak-Mędelska - Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Poland
Jaroslav Koutský - Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic
Daniel Meyer - North-West University, South Africa
Natanya Meyer - North-West University, South Africa
Kateryna Pryakhina - Kremenchuk Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi National University, Ukraine
Miloslav Šašek - Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic
Marius Venter - University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Journal History
Biblioteka Regionalisty, prepared by the employees of the Department of Spatial Economy and Local Government Administration of Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, is a platform for the exchange of knowledge and dissemination of research results conducted in the field of regional development. The topics of the journal cover such aspects as: regional policy, spatial development with the special attention paid to local and regional development issues, metropolisation in the era of knowledge-based economy, finance of local government units, safety in space, as well as creativity and innovation of regional economy.
The initiative to publish the yearbook of Biblioteka Regionalisty was undertaken in 2005. Since then the journal has been published regularly in a characteristic binding and with interesting content. It should be emphasised that the journal is universal in terms of its authors “scientific status”. Publications are written both by recognised professors as well as young research workers. It should also be mentioned that the current proposal is a continuation of the previous publishing series under the name of Biblioteka Regionalistyki, which first issue was published in 2001.