Copyright Policy and Licensing

Copyright Policy:

The Journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. By default, copyright remains with the author(s) or the organization that owns the author(s)’ copyright in the article. In our open access journals, authors agree on submission that if their manuscript is accepted, it will be published under the Creative Commons license CC BY.  The journal provides the article’s online access for using and sharing by readers. Permitted (re) use is defined by Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0).

Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0): permit users to copy, to create extracts abstracts, abstracts and new works from the article, to alter and revise the article, and to make commercial use of the article

Authors are responsible for acknowledging and obtaining permission to use, reproduce, or adapt any copyrighted material (including text, tables, figures, and other copyrighted content) included in their article. The author must credit the creator of the material and indicate that permission was received.

The Journal will be able to publish the paper after receiving written consent from its Author. Copy right of the published paper (original work) will remain with the author/ co-authors. Paper once published in the journal shall not be published in any other journal in case, legal action could be taken by the publisher. If an author wants to publish his/her article in any other journal in that case he/she should withdraw the paper through written consent from the Journal before its publication.

Copyright Infringement Claims:

Any claims of copyright infringement should be addressed to the Editor at journals@iprjb.org bearing the subject line “Copyright Infringement”.

The claim must be sufficed by documented evidence supporting the same version as being published or copyrighted or patented by the aggrieved party before the date of publication of the concerned Journal article. On receipt of the claim, the Journal Board, if found deemed, shall inform the Journal author to provide an explanation; the discussion of which shall be transparent to both parties.

The Journals Board reserves the sole rights to decide the validity of any such claims. After deliberation, if the claim is found justified, the concerned manuscript will be removed from the Journal archives and servers. Any subsequent print copies of the concerned issue will not contain the article. In case, the changes required are minimal such as inclusion of references, the authors will be intimated to do the required amendments according to the Journal article correction policies. The alternative version shall undergo peer-review as any other general submission and shall be published in the same issue (number) of the concerned volume.

Any claims on copyright will be addressed with the highest priority. A revert mail will be dispatched within 3 working days provided the claim is supported with documented evidence.

 

Peer Review & Publication Policy

The peer review practice is to ensure that good research/case-study/report/survey/science is published. It is an objective process at the heart of good scholarly publishing. Our reviewers therefore play a vital role in maintaining the high standards of [Journal] and all manuscripts are peer reviewed following the procedure outlined below.

Initial manuscript evaluation

Once a manuscript is submitted, it is assigned to an Editor most appropriate to handle it, based on the subject of the manuscript and the availability of the Editors. If the Editor determines that the manuscript is not of sufficient quality to go through the standard review process or if the manuscript’s subject is not appropriate to the journal scope, the Editor rejects the manuscript with no further processing (desk rejection). Those rejected at this stage are insufficiently original, have serious scientific flaws, have poor grammar or English language, or are outside the aims and scope of the journal. This decision is made within 1-3 days. If the paper is accepted, an informal acceptance letter is usually issued at this point. A paper cannot be rejected once an informal acceptance letter has been issued so as to provide stability and certainty to the publication process.

If the Editor determines that the submitted manuscript is of sufficient quality and falls within the scope of the Journal, he/she requests the publication fee, and once it is received the editor assigns the manuscript to a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 3 external reviewers for peer review. The duration of peer review is 4 – 8 weeks. The reviewers submit their reports on the manuscripts along with their recommendation of one of the following actions to the Editor:

  • Accept and publish as it is
  • Accept submission and publish after minor changes
  • Accept submission subject to major changes

 

Author guidelines

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission’s compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

 

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