FULL NAME
Online edition – an electronic journal «Nauchno-tekhnicheskiy vestnik Bryanskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta» («Scientific and Technical Journal of Bryansk State University», Scientific and Technical BSU Journal).

FOUNDER OF THE JOURNAL
Academician I.G. Petrovskii Bryansk State University — Federal State-Funded Educational Institution for Higher Professional Education..

PUBLISHER OF THE JOURNAL
Academician I.G. Petrovskii Bryansk State University, Editorial and Publishing Department.

PUBLISHED SINCE
The journal has been published since October 2015.

PUBLICATION FREQUENCY AND MODE

Peer-reviewed scientific journal «Nauchno-tekhnicheskiy vestnik Bryanskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta» («Scientific and Technical Journal of Bryansk State University») — an electronic journal published 4 times per year (quarterly).

The articles in Russian, English and German languages are accepted for publication. Russian-language articles contain the full text in Russian and the annotated part (the title, abstract and references) in English. English- and German-language articles, on the contrary, contain the text itself in English or German, correspondingly, and the annotated part in Russian.

THE CHAIRMAN OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Doctor of Philology, professor Аndrey V. Antyuhov.

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Doctor of Engineering, professor Alexander V. Lagerev.

AIMS AND SCOPE
The journal features articles, covering new scientific results in the areas of fundamental and applied research and corresponding to the following areas:
• engineering sciences;
• Earth sciences.

OPEN ACCESS POLICY
This is an open access journal, which means that all its content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, distribute, copy, print, search, or link to the full texts of the papers, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of Open Access.

REGISTRATION

The electronic journal «Nauchno-tekhnicheskiy vestnik Bryanskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta» («Scientific and Technical Journal of Bryansk State University») is registered by the Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communication. Registration Certificate El № FS77-62798, 18 August 2015.

The journal is registered in Centre International de l’ISSN and has an International Standard Serial Number of periodicals E-ISSN 2413-9920.

The journal is in National Scientific electronic library (eLIBRARY.RU) — main executor of the project on creation of the Russian index of scientific citation (RISC), contract number 746-11/2015 with «eLIBRARY.RU».

The journal is included in international abstract database Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory (USA).

Metadata articles are transferred to CROSSref, articles international index DOI is assigned.

The journal is registered in the databases:
• Russian index of scientific citing (RISC);
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ);
• Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory (USA);
• Digital library open access «CyberLeninka» (Russia);
• Fund of scientific-technical literature of VINITI of Russian Academy of Sciences;
• WorldCat (USA);
• GOOGLE Scholar (USA);
• OpenAIRE (Switzerland-EU);
• ZENODO (Spain-EU);
• Scientific Indexing Services (USA);
• AcademicKeys (USA);
• National digital resource «Rukont» (Russia);
• Electronic library system of Publishing house «LAN» (Russia);
• The web resource for the Publishing house «LAN» (Russia);
• Database of scientific journals «Vsenauki.ru» (Russia).
• Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources (ROAD);
• Library of Saskatchewan University (Canada);
• Universitats Bibliothek Leipzig – UBL (Germany)
• Berufsakademie Sachsen Studienakademie Glauchau Bibliothek (Germany)
• Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Germany)
• Open Access Library — OALIB (China);
• Socionet – Scientific Information Space (Russia);
• Scilit – Scientific Literature (Switzerland);
• MIAR — Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals (Spain)
• Academic Resource Index – ResearchBib (Japan)
• I2OR – International Institute of Organized Research (India, Australia)
• Journal Factor — JF (USA)

REVIEWING OF ARTICLES

All articles submitted to the journal for publication are subject to blind peer reviewing and screening for plagiarism.

The reviewing procedure is organized by the editorial board of the journal. The reviews are kept in the publishing office of the journal for 5 years.

The editorial board sends the authors of the articles reviews copies with remarks for correcting or a motivated refusal.

The decision to publish an article is made on the basis of the reviewing procedure.

PUBLISHING SYSTEM
The journal uses Open Journal Systems 3.0.2, which is open source journal management and publishing software developed, supported, and freely distributed by the Public Knowledge Project under the GNU General Public License.

SUBMISSION CHARGES

1. Article Submission: 0.00
Authors are not required to pay an Article Submission Fee as part of the submission process to contribute to review costs.
2. Article Publication: 0.00

Authors are not required to pay an Article Publication Fee as part of the publication process to contribute to printing costs.

LICENSE
Each article in this journal is licensed under a License Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International.