OBJECTIVE
The objective of the Open Access Editorial Policy is to provide clear explanations, best practices, and guidelines for the editorial management of IABS Publishing Open Access Journals. All Editor(s)-in-Chief and members of the review board are expected to familiarize themselves and respectfully follow the policies and expectations established for IABS Publishing Open Access Journals. The following policies and guidelines are to ensure the highest level of quality, integrity, accuracy, and impact for IABS Publishing Open Access Journals.
What Does IABS Publish? Academic Open Access Journals
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OPEN ACCESS
Open Access Publication offers authors the opportunity to produce freely available publications globally with no individual or institutional subscription requirement. Open Access publishing aids with the citation impact and discoverability of a journal and its published contents leading to greater recognition across the academic community and in major indexes. Greater content access increases the potential of stimulating the interest of other researchers in the field for future collaboration opportunities as well as potential research funding opportunities.
Journal articles that are converted to open access have seen a 70-80% increase in citations compared to articles behind a paywall.
ORIGINALITY
Only original, previously unpublished manuscripts should be considered for publication. Any manuscript that has a pre-publication posting online by another publisher or has already been formally published cannot be considered. Also, materials posted openly online in databases such as ResearchGate, SSRN, arXiv, etc. should not be considered until they have been removed from those respective sites.
IABS Publishing abides by international copyright law, and as such all contributors of traditionally published journals (published behind a paywall) are asked to agree to the Copyright Transfer Agreement (CTA) prior to publication. IABS Publishing considers the acceptance of the CTA at submittal as an electronic signature and agreement with the CTA.
Plagiarism and Self Plagiarism Concerns
IABS Publishing defines plagiarism as the intentional or unintentional use of another individuals, or collection of individuals’, ideas, theories, models, equations, conclusions, research (intellectual property), and/or verbatim or paraphrased words without proper attribution to the original source. Any submitted work that is found to be plagiarized will not be considered for publication.
PRICING
What APCs (Article Processing Charge) Cover
In the traditional subscription-based model, the cost to the publisher to produce each article manuscript is covered by the revenue generated by journal subscriptions. Under Open Access, all the article manuscripts are published under a Creative Commons (CC BY) license; therefore, the authors or funding body will pay a one-time Article Processing Charge (APC) to offset the costs of all the activities associated with the publication of the article manuscript, such as:
- Digital tools used to support the manuscript management and review process
- The typesetting, formatting, and layout of the article manuscript
- Online hosting
- The submission of the journal’s content to numerous abstracts, directories, and indexes
- Third-party software (e.g. plagiarism checks)
- Editorial support
- Manuscript tracking
- Communications
- Submission guideline checks
- Communications with authors and reviewers
- Promotional support and activities
- Metadata distribution
- Press releases
- Promotional communications examples include Web Content, Ads, Print Content and Social media
All published manuscripts will be freely accessible and therefore are able to be posted and disseminated widely by the authors.
When/How Payment is Collected
Payment of the APC (Article Processing Charge) directly to the publisher, by the author or a funding body is not required until AFTER the manuscript has gone through the full double-anonymized peer review process and the Editor(s))-in-chief has decided to accept the manuscript. Please note that there is NO correlation between the intention to pay the APC (Article Processing Charge) by the author and the results of review process or the outcomes/editorial decision. Also please be advised that IABS Publishing cannot schedule the article for publication or publish the article until payment has been received. The APC can only be set and collected by IABS Publishing.
Authors can either pay the article processing charge themselves or have an outside funding source aid with the payment.