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The publication is published and financed by the governmental budget secured to the NLL and by various projects (State Cultural Capital Fund, State Research Programme, Böckler-Mare-Balticum-Stiftung, etc.).

All income from sold copies is reinvested in NLL research activities, including the publishing of the Proceedings of the NLL. There is no publishing fee and the proceedings does not offer subscriptions, advertising or vendor priviledges.

Copyright of research published in the Proceedings of the NLL belongs to the authors of the papers and the National Library of Latvia.

Articles are licensed under an open access Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license (for full details, see creativecommons.org).

The journal does not charge article processing charges or submission charges.

The responsibility of editor-in-chief, the editorial board and reviewers is to identify research misconduct, for instance, plagiarism, citation manipulation, data falsification. Papers in which research misconduct is identified, are not published.

Since 2009, the Proceedings of the NLL have also been available electronically. The publication’s archive has been digitised back to 1964 and is permanently stored in the National Digital Library of Latvia, which is a repository of digitised and digitally born data at the national level, and is freely accessible. National Digital Library of Latvia is a national level digital data repository and ensures both backup as well as digital preservation of its contents.

The most recent volumes can be purchased in print form at the NLL shop "Friends’ Room" (Level 1) – Mūkusalas iela 3, Rīga or online eveikals.lnb.lv/books. Printed copies of the Proceedings of the NLL are also regularly sent to Estonia’s, Lithuania’s, Poland’s and other national and research libraries, research centres and universities.

The Proceedings of the NLL are published once a year.

The publication does not carry advertising.

The publication does not carry direct marketing activities.