Policies

Rovedar ensures some policies for authors about the publication and distribution of an article. The author, should be aware of policies before the submission of an article. Please read the following policies about Copyright, Article Sharing, Article Withdrawal, Article Retraction, Article Removal and Article Replacement.

Copyright

Authors who publish in Rovedar Journals agree to the following terms:

a. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work’s authorship and initial publication in a journal published by Rovedar.

b. Authors can enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal’s published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in a journal published by Rovedar.

c. Authors are required to make sure submitted content does not infringe third-party copyright. Authors must obtain permission to reproduce any third-party material for online – and print, if applicable – publication in perpetuity. It is also the authors’ responsibility to include any acknowledgments requested by copyright holders, and to mark clearly third-party material used with permission, material that has separate licensing terms, and material used under exceptions or limitations to copyright.

Article sharing

When a paper is published, it will be shared on several platforms that are the most important ones and help the author get more citations, audience, visibility, and reputation and thus promotes the author in his professional career. The following ways will also help the author(s) to promote their work after publication. The author(s) may:

• consider search engine optimization and keywords to help readers to discover your article.
• share the paper on press and social media. A sharing option is available on every page of published articles.
• share the article on your personal website or blog.
• share the article on any indexing database or institutional repository.

Open access agreement

All the Rovedar journals are Gold Open Access and provide immediate open access to the content (articles) published in a journal published by Rovedar, on the principle that making research freely available on the Internet to support a greater global exchange of knowledge. Authors who publish in a journal published by Rovedar retain the copyright to their work and grant the journal the right of first publication. Additionally, the work is simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, share, distribution, and reproduction in any platform and medium, provided that the original work is properly cited. 

Withdrawal, retraction, removal, or replacement of a published article

Rovedar understands the importance of completeness of the scholarly record for researchers and librarians and gives the highest importance to maintaining trust in the authority of its electronic archive. In very occasional cases, it comes necessary to withdraw, retract, remove or replace a published article. Such cases are not taken very lightly. Rovedar follows some strict specific rules and policies mentioned below:

Article withdrawal

After submission, when the author(s) needs to withdraw their article(s) due to some reasons, the journal editor investigates the matter, the step of the peer-review process, and the reason for withdrawal. All the withdrawal requests within ONE week of submission will be accepted and the manuscript will be deleted from the journal database. In case the author(s) are paid the APC but demands withdrawal of articles in Press (those have been accepted for publication but which have not been formally published and will not yet have the complete volume/issue/page information), the manuscript may be withdrawn from our database but the publication fee will not be refunded. The withdrawal requests because of simultaneous submissions to other journals especially when the article is under peer-review process, will not be accepted. After the peer-reviewing step, the editor processes the withdrawal after investigating the matter. In case of multiple submissions, bogus claims of authorship, duplication, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data, or the like that are determined to violate Rovedar publishing ethics guidelines, the article may also be withdrawn from our database. It means that the article content (HTML, XML, and PDF) is removed and replaced with a statement (the article has been withdrawn according to the Rovedar policy on Article in Press Withdrawal) with a link to the current policy document.

Article retraction

In case of infringements of professional ethical codes, such as multiple submissions, bogus claims of authorship, duplication, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data or the like that are determined to violate Rovedar publishing ethics guideline, a retraction will be used to correct errors in submission or publication. Rovedar will consider retracting a publication if:

• It has clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either as a result of misconduct (e.g. data fabrication) or honest error (e.g. miscalculation or experimental error);
• The findings have previously been published elsewhere without proper crossreferencing, permission, or justification (i.e. cases of redundant publication);
• It constitutes plagiarism;
• It reports unethical research.

The following standards for dealing with retractions are adopted based on a number of library and scholarly bodies and COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors:

• A retraction note signed by both authors and editor is published in the specific part of a subsequent issue of the journal and listed in the contents list;
• A link is made to the original published article to help the reader see both the retraction note and the article itself;
• A titled “retracted” watermark on the .pdf is added on each page without any change to the original article;
• The HTML, XML, and ePrint version of the document is removed.

Article removal (because of legal limitations)

In a limited number of cases, it may be necessary to remove an article from the online database so that the “Title and Authors” will be retained, and only the text will be replaced with a screen indicating the article has been removed for legal reasons. This will only occur where the article is clearly defamatory or infringes others’ legal rights, or where the article is, or we have good reason to expect it will be, the subject of a court order, or where the article if acted upon, might pose a serious health risk.

Article replacement

In case, where an article might pose a serious health risk, the author(s) can replace theır article(s) with a correct version. In this case, we will post a notice with a link to the corrected re-published article (plus a history of the document if necessary).

Peer review policy

The practice of peer review is to ensure that only good science is published. It is an objective process at the heart of good scholarly publishing and is carried out by all reputable scientific journals. Our reviewers play a vital role in maintaining the high standards Review Policy and all manuscripts are peer-reviewed following the procedure outlined below.

Initial manuscript evaluation
The Editor first evaluates all manuscripts. It is rare, but it is possible for an exceptional manuscript to be accepted at this stage. Manuscripts 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. Those that meet the minimum criteria are normally passed on to at least 2 experts for review.

Type of Peer Review
Rovedar journals employs single-blind reviewing policy.

How the reviewer is selected
Whenever possible, reviewers are matched to the paper according to their expertise and our database is constantly being updated.

Reviewer reports
Reviewers are asked to evaluate whether the manuscript: – Is original – Is methodologically sound – Follows appropriate ethical guidelines – Has results which are clearly presented and support the conclusions – Correctly reviewers previous relevant work.

Language correction is not part of the peer-review process, but reviewers may, if so wish, suggest corrections to the manuscript.

How long does the review process take?
The time required for the review process is dependent on the response of the reviewers. Should the reviewers’ reports contradict one another or a report is unnecessarily delayed, a further expert opinion will be sought. The Editor’s decision will be sent to the author with recommendations made by the reviewers, which usually include verbatim comments by the reviewers. Revised manuscripts might be returned to the initial referees who may then request another revision of a manuscript.

Final report
A final decision to accept or reject the manuscript will be sent to the author along with any recommendations made by the reviewers and may include verbatim comments by the reviewers.

Editor’s Decision is final
Reviewers advise the editor, who is responsible for the final decision to accept or reject the article.

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