Respub Journals
As opposed to the traditional subscription-based models, open access allows readers to access, use, and share academic work freely and with no charge. This allows for significantly more engagement and provides authors with a stronger platform to share their knowledge and the findings of their research. Since open access grants users’ restrictions-free access to high-quality materials, we have at our disposal a larger array of marketing and promotional tools to expand our readership than traditional publishers typically do. Anyone with a smartphone or a computer and access to the internet will be able to read your manuscript and share it with their peers.
Open access does not mean that authors give up control over their work. In fact, with open access authors are able to maintain the copyright, and readers are required to follow a set of specific rules on how they can correctly use and distribute this work. All work is protected by the Creative Commons Attribution License. The authors' publications in Respub Journals are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ). The license was developed to facilitate open access, namely, free immediate access to and unrestricted reuse of original works of all types.
Under this license, authors retain ownership of the copyright for their publications but grant Respub Journals a non-exclusive license to publish the work in paper form and allow anyone to reuse, distribute and reproduce the content as long as the original work is properly cited.
Appropriate attribution can be provided by simply citing the original work. No permission is required from the authors or the publishers. For any reuse or distribution of a work, users must also make clear the license terms under which the work was published.
The standard license will be applied to the authors' publications, which ensures the publications freely and openly available in perpetuity.
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The single most important criterion for acceptance for publication is the originality of the work. Other factors may affect decisions, such factors are, the extent and importance of new information in the paper compared with that in other papers being considered.
Any products or services marked as an advertisement or promoted by a sponsor in publications are not endorsed by our Respub Journals. The content of Editorial is not compromised by commercial or financial interests, or by any specific arrangements with advertising clients or sponsors.
Both types of articles i.e. paid and waivered are not accepted by our Editorial Board Members for publication and printing for advertising purpose. The articles could not linked to advertisings using keywords by authors.
Plagiarism, duplicate submission, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and all the like misconducts are not tolerated. This journal uses PlagScan Software to detect any possible plagiarism in the submissions.
Prior to final publication: The manuscript is thoroughly checked by the peer-review council after the author sends the revised manuscript, to ensure that recommended suggestions are implemented in the article content. Thereafter, Galley proofs are sent to the author for proofreading and corrections are done before the PDF's are sent for final publication.
After final publication: Once the article is finally published, changes with regard to author names, affiliations etc. will not be entertained. However, if any mistake is detected that seriously affects the publication records or the scope of the article then modifications can be done on receipt of such request from the corresponding author of the article.Policies related to retraction of the articles covers instances leading to unethical practices in developing an article, multiple submission, fake authorship, and any other fraudulent conduct. It also covers requests to retract an article for correcting mistakes and technical errors in the research data. We adopt to the best practices for dealing with retractions and allow genuine requests on receiving such requests with a retraction request letter duly signed by the signed by the authors. After approval, the HTML and other versions of the article are removed from the Respub Journals database and other promotional platforms.
Manuscripts may be withdrawn by submitting a letter to the editorial office stating the reasons for manuscript withdrawal. There are no withdrawal charges if the manuscript is withdrawn before plagiarism check but the authors need to pay 50% of the publication fee as Withdrawal charges after 7 days of the manuscript submission.
Replacement of the article is accepted in cases where the article, if acted upon, might pose a serious health risk and the authors of the original article wish to retract the original and replace it with a corrected version.
The above policies are designed and implemented to address any concern of the authors and to take into account best practice in the scholarly publishing. These policies are revisited on scheduled basis and revised as per the international standards and best practices adopted by the publishing and information industry.
Note: All the journals of Respub Journals member of International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) at present and follows the regulations from ICMJE.
