Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Informatics Studies the journal promoted by Centre for Informatics Research and Development and  is a media for discussing the emerging trends in theory and application of Infomation Science. The journal focuses on –Information Infrastructures, Knowledge Management, Institutional Repositories, Digital Library/Archive, Cloud Computing Solutions for Libraries, Unicode, Multi-linguality and Interoperability Issues, Thesauri and Ontologies, Semantics, Metadata and Retrieval, Resources Discovery Solutions, Online Resources Usability Issues, Open Access Initiatives, OAI –PMH, MARC 21, Consortia, IPR, Information Literacy, Training and education of Professionals, Performance Measurement and Metrics, Setting Service Quality Standards etc. 

Ethics and Publication Malpractice statement of the Journal

Standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing

Decision on Publication

The editors of the Journal are responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published.
The editors may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editor may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Fair play

An editor at any time evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Confidentiality

The editors and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.

Duties of Reviewers

Contribution to Editorial Decisions

Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

Promptness

Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

Confidentiality

Any manuscripts received for review will be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

Standards of Objectivity

Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgement of Sources

Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.


Duties of Authors

Reporting standards

Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.

Data Access and Retention

Authors are asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data, if practicable, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.

Originality and Plagiarism

The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication

An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

Acknowledgement of Sources

Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

Authorship of the Paper

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors.
The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Fundamental Errors in Published works

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

 



 

 

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

Informatics Studies will not accept or publish in print or online manuscripts without prior peer review. There shall be a review process of manuscripts by one or more independent referees who are conversant in the pertinent subject area. Editors of Informatics Studies shall follow a clearly defined review process.

The editor evaluates the recommendation and notifies the author of the manuscript status. The manuscript may be: accepted as it is, accepted after minor revision, accepted after major revision, or rejected.

 

Publication Frequency

Quarterly

 

Author Self-Archiving

This journal permits and encourages authors to post items submitted to the journal on personal websites or institutional repositories both prior to and after publication, while providing bibliographic details that credit, if applicable, its publication in this journal.

 

Delayed Open Access

The contents of this journal will be available in an open access format 2 month(s) after an issue is published.

Back Issues will be  available for Open Access all users.

 

Informatics Studies

Informatics Studies the journal promoted by Centre for Informatics Research and Development is a media for discussing the emerging trends in theory and application of Information Science. The journal will focus on –Information Infrastructures, Knowledge Management, Institutional Repositories, Digital Library/Archive, Cloud Computing Solutions for Libraries, Unicode, Multi-linguality and Interoperability Issues, Thesauri and Ontologies, Semantics, Metadata and Retrieval, Resources Discovery Solutions, Online Resources Usability Issues, Open Access Initiatives, OAI –PMH, MARC 21, Consortia, IPR, Information Literacy, Training and education of Professionals, Performance Measurement and Metrics, Setting Service Quality Standards etc. Informatics Studies is published Quarterly. ISSN: 2320-530X (Print). Detailed list of topics to be covered by the journal, and author guidelines are available at informaticsstudies.in 

Dr. Gireesh Kumar T K (Editor in Chief). Assistant Professor, Dept of Library and Information Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi- -221005, India. gireesh@bhu.ac.in.

Dr. Antonella De Robbio, (Editor in Chief 2). University of Padua, Sistema Bibliotecario di Ateneo, 3. 35121 Padova PD, Italy. antonella.derobbio@unipd.it.

Dr. R. Raman Nair (Editor -Legal). Director, Centre for Informatics Research and Development, Trivandrum 695043/) editor@informaticsstudies.org.

Prof. Girish Kumar R (Editor). Professor, Dept of Political Science, University of Kerala, Karyavattom, India. grk@keralauniversity.ac.in.

Prof. Nuning Kurniasih. Padjadjaran University, Bandung, Indonesia, Dept of Library and Information Science, Univeritas Padjadjaran, Jl. Raya Bandung-Sumedang, KM.21 Jatinangor Sumedang 45363. nuning.kurniasih@unpad.ac.id.

Advisory Board Members: Dr. M Jayapradeep: mjayapradeep@gmail.com, Prof. Egbert de Smet: egbert.desmet@ua.ac.be, Sri. Krishanakumar B: b.krishnakumar@jains.com,Sri. Sanjith Krishnakumar: kk@x-minds.info, prof. Ernesto Spinak: spinaker@adinet.com.uy, Dr. Imma Subirats Coll: imma.subirats@gmail.com, Dr. Alicia Fátima Gómez: afgomez@cnic.es, Sri. Vinu Varugherse.

Informatics Studies ISSN: 2583-8954 (Online), 2320-530X (Print)