Digital ProScholar Media

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Editorial Policies

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Editorial Mission

Journals published by Digital ProScholar Media take into consideration a wider range of articles such as reviews, original research articles, case presentations, editorials, letters to the editor. Reviews and specific articles are usually commissioned by the editorial office, but the usance is to analyze (prior to submission) any proposal from contributors, too. For more information about the journal mission, please see Aims and Scope of each journal.

Who Can Submit

Anyone may submit an original article to be considered for publication in provided he or she owns the copyright to the work being submitted or is authorized by the copyright owner or owners to submit the article. Authors are the initial owners of the copyrights to their works (an exception in the non-academic world to this might exist if the authors have, as a condition of employment, agreed to transfer copyright to their employer).

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General Submission Rules

All articles published by Digital ProScholar Media are double blind peer-reviewed, according to the highest level of professional standards and ethics. This implies a good collaboration between authors, editors, reviewers and publisher.

Submitted articles cannot have been previously published, nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic). Please note: "publication" in a working-paper series does not constitute prior publication. In addition, by submitting material to Journals of Digital ProScholar Media, the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that he or she will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at Digital ProScholar Media. If you have concerns about the submission terms or procedure, please contact the editors.

 

Ethical Guidelines

We strongly recommend to all contributors to respect internationally accepted ethical standards related to publications. Contrary, the Editors reserve the right to reject the concerned paper on ethical grounds. Take into consideration the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics- Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors (COPE), International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) Recommendations, the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing (OASPA), and other similar international publishing standards. Digital ProScholar Media ensures that all journals comply with the:

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Malpractice Statement

All articles published through Digital ProScholar Media are double blind peer-reviewed, according to the highest level of professional standards and ethics. This implies a good collaboration between authors, editors, reviewers and publisher.

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Formatting Requirements

Digital ProScholar Media recommends to authors to verify - prior to submission - the general rules related to formatting requirements of scientific articles. For details, please go to: Instructions for Authors. Although can provide limited technical support, it is ultimately the responsibility of the author to produce an electronic version of the article as a high-quality Word or RTF file that can be converted to a PDF file.

It is understood that the current state of technology of Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) is such that there are no, and can be no, guarantees that documents in PDF will work perfectly with all possible hardware and software configurations that readers may have.

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Peer review process

Editorial Board evaluates the quality of submitted papers using the peer review process, an integral part of scientific publishing. Each final response is supervised by Editor(s) in Chief, based on preliminary editorial evaluation and reviewer’s comments. The role of journal editors in reviewing and approving published materials is complete, editor(s) in chief being integrally responsible for delegating tasks to editorial members, managing submission, peer review process, and final decision for each manuscript.

Any submitted paper undergoes a preliminary editorial evaluation that verifies the minimal requirements. In this stage articles can be rejected due to poor grammar or English language, lack of proper structure (do not provide enough details/ materials and methods to allow other scientists to repeat the study, lack of up-to-date references, etc.), are outside the aims and scope of the journal or having no new science (does not clearly explain which parts of the findings are new science, versus what was already known). To avoid any delay or rejection due to such reasons, please see: Instructions for Authors before submission. Authors of manuscripts rejected at this stage will usually be informed within two weeks of receipt.

Articles that meet the minimum criteria are normally passed on to at least two expert referees (selected according to their expertise) for reviewing. The referees remain anonymous to the authors, and the identity of the authors is unknown to the reviewers. Referees are asked to evaluate whether the manuscript is original and methodologically adequate (materials and methods, statistical data), has results which are clearly presented and support the conclusions, presents correct and exhaustive references (related to previous relevant work), that contributes to the knowledge and development of the field respecting appropriate ethical guidelines (especially/ but not necessarily limited to plagiarism).

Referees advise the Chief Editor, who is responsible for the final decision to accept or reject the article. If decision implies a revision, this must be made by authors according to received comments. Perform/ address all points raised by reviewers and editor, highlighting the changes and additions in the text (with a different color text, or with Microsoft Word's Track Changes feature). Contrary, provide a scientific rebuttal to points or comments you disagree, describing all these revisions in a response letter. Your revision must be returned within the time period the editor tells you.

Erratum and retraction. Sometimes the authors want to update the published article(s). We strongly encourage authors to submit updates either as a new manuscript or as a letter to the editor. When scientific misconduct is alleged, or concerns are otherwise raised about the conduct or integrity of work described in submitted or published papers, the editor should initiate appropriate procedures detailed by such committees such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). When a possible error is detected after the publication, a distinct erratum will be published as a new article, citing the original article and correcting the error. If there are serious errors in an article and these errors would modify / invalidate the findings and conclusions presented, the article is re-evaluated and may need to be withdrawn.

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Rights for Authors

Digital ProScholar Media publishes peer reviewed journals, online and open access, no charges being received for submission, review, and publication of articles. All published articles may be freely downloaded and used by anyone from anywhere, for scientific purposes. The journal adheres to the philosophy that high quality, original ideas and information should be readily accessible and freely shared within and amongst the scientific community.

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Attribution and Usage Policies

Our journals are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which means that the content published in any journal (articles, conferences, book reviews, etc.) can be downloaded/ used only for non-commercial purposes, without to be modified in any way and specifying the original source. All accepted papers are published free, open access, according to CC-BY-NC-ND license. People seeking an exception or have questions about use, should Contact Us.

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General Terms and Conditions of Use

Users of the website and/or software agree not to misuse the service or software in any way. The failure of to exercise or enforce any right or provision in the policies or the Submission Agreement does not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any term of the Submission Agreement or these policies is found to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Submission Agreement and these policies remain in full force and effect. These policies and the Submission Agreement constitute the entire agreement between and the Author(s) regarding submission of the Article.

Digital ProScholar Media Digital does not have an Advertising policy, publishing activity being supported by private institutional support.

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