Information For Librarians

We invite libraries, research institutions and aggregators to include Pressing Problems of Public Administration in their catalogues, repositories and electronic journal holdings. The information required for cataloguing and deposit is set out below.

Journal identification

  • Title: Актуальні проблеми державного управління
  • Parallel title in English: Pressing Problems of Public Administration
  • ISSN 1684-8489 (Print)
  • DOI is assigned to every article
  • Founder and publisher: V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
  • EDRPOU code: 02071205; publisher ROR: https://ror.org/03ftejk10
  • Editorial office: Institute of Public Administration, 4 Svobody Square, Room 6-50, Kharkiv 61022, Ukraine
  • Official website: https://periodicals.karazin.ua/apdu
  • Frequency: 2 issues per year; languages: Ukrainian and English
  • Subject area: public administration and governance; social and behavioural sciences

Status and registration

Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine No. 928 of 11 June 2026 — List of Scientific Professional Publications of Ukraine, Category “B”, cluster “Economic Transformations, Business and Administration” (position No. 94, Annex 13), 2026–2029. On the List since 2005. Media identifier: R40-06755 (Decision of the National Council No. 2802 of 18 December 2025, Minutes No. 28).

Open access, copyright and licensing

  • Model: full (gold) open access with no embargo period
  • No article processing charges (APCs) and no submission fees
  • First publication rights under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) license
  • Copyright
  • Self-archiving policy: see the Copyright and Licence page

Indexing and abstracting

The journal has been indexed in Scientific Periodicals of Ukraine (Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine),  WorldCat.

Archiving and long-term preservation

The full-text archive of all issues is permanently available on the journal website with no retention limit.

Metadata and machine-readable access

The journal runs on the Open Journal Systems platform. Dublin Core schemas are supported, citations can be exported in RIS and BibTeX formats, and DOIs are deposited with Crossref.

Why hold this journal in your collection

  • A Category “B” professional publication with valid status for 2026–2029 — suitable for publishing the results of doctoral research
  • A specialist public administration journal that systematically covers governance under wartime conditions, community recovery and Ukraine’s European integration
  • An international editorial board and authors from Latvia, Luxembourg, Türkiye and other countries
  • Full open access — adding the journal to a catalogue costs the library nothing

Contact for libraries and aggregators

For cataloguing, deposit and metadata exchange, please contact the editorial office: i.dunaev@karazin.ua or apdu_journal_idu@karazin.ua.

Open Journal Systems, the platform on which this journal runs, is free software developed by the Public Knowledge Project and may be used by libraries to host publications edited by their own faculty: https://pkp.sfu.ca/software/ojs