Publishing Policies
Arks Global Publishers publication policy address the following elements copyrights and licensing, authorship, Correction of record, ethics, preservation of published works, journal title transfer, Pre-print policy, Article processing Charge policy, Author Declaration for scholarly journals and Copyright and Licensing . All this policies are well elaborated Under Standards and code of practices of several leading industry organisations that include Directory of Open Access Journals, Ithenticate, Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, CrossRef, Portico and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) where Arks Global Publishers ascribed to.
Copyright and Licensing
Copyright
The author(s) retain copyright on work published by Arks Global Publishers unless specified others
Publication licensing
Author(s) of work published by Arks Global Publishers are required to allow/permit Arks Global Publishers the unlimited power to print the classic work in any format, language and medium, for any legal role/purpose
Protecting Intellectual Property
The author(s) are solely responsible for acknowledging third-party copyright. In addition, the editor(s), ARKS and the owner of the title of every journal or book accept no responsibility for any statement made or opinion expressed in authored works published in any ARKS journal or book and hence cannot admit role of the violation of third-party copyright
Arks Global Publishers requires authors of journals and books publish their work in open access in Creative Commons Attribution 4.0international licence and Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial –ShareAlike 4.0International(CCBY-NC-SA 4.0
Literary works, works of fiction and technical reports may however be published behind a paywall and under a different and more suitable publication licence
Plagiarism and fabrication
Plagiarism is when an author attempts to pass off someone else’s work as his or her own. Duplicate publication, sometimes called self-plagiarism, occurs when an author reuses substantial parts of his or her own published work without providing the appropriate references. This can range from having an identical manuscript published in multiple books/journals, to ‘salami-slicing’, where authors add small amounts of new data to a previous manuscript
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Plagiarism can be said to have clearly occurred when large chunks of text have been cut and pasted. Such manuscripts would not be considered for publication on Arks Global Publishers book/journal. However, minor plagiarism without dishonest intent is relatively frequent, for example when an author reuses parts of an introduction from an earlier manuscript. Arks Global Publishers book/journal editors judge any case of which they become aware (either by their own knowledge of and reading about the literature, or when alerted by referees) on its own merits
Arks Global Publishers is a member CrossCheck, an initiative to help editors verify the originality of submitted manuscripts. As part of this process all manuscripts are scanned and compared with the Cross Check database
If a case of plagiarism comes to light after a manuscript is published in an Arks Global Publishers book/journal, the book/journal will conduct a preliminary investigation. If plagiarism is found, the book/journal will contact the author’s institute and funding agencies. A determination of misconduct will lead the Arks Global Publishers book/journal to publish a corrigendum linked to the original publication, with an explanation. Depending on the extent of the plagiarism, the manuscript may also be formally retracted