AUTHOR’S RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS

All authors published their research papers in International Journal of Research Culture Society (IJRCS)  are entitled for following rights and obligations

  1. Authors hold full copyright and self-archiving rights, they transfer the publishing rights to IJRCS.
  2. We can decline to publish material where a pre-print or working paper has been previously mounted online.
  3. We allow author to get their conferences,  seminars or  symposium’s presented  papers published with note about the acknowledgement(not published – only presented),  if the paper is not mounted online in any other portal/website.
  4. The research and review papers published in IJRCS can be archived in any private of public archives online or offline. Authors are allowed to archive their article in open access repositories as post-prints. Note: a post-print is the version incorporating changes and modifications resulting from peer-review comments.
  5. Authors are free to use link to our published papers and share the published papers online or offline in the final format printed on the Journal website.
  6. Authors are free to use link to our published papers and share the published papers online or offline in the final format printed on the Journal website.
  7. Authors can index and store the published papers in the private or public archives or repositories like university database, Google Scholar, Academia, Mendeley, Scribd, issuu etc.
  8. We promote sharing of knowledge with due credit to the authors and researchers of the papers published with IJRCS.

 

Time Limitations for submitted Paper/Article or Research work manuscripts provisions of storage and responsibility in IJRCS:

  • As IJRCS journal offers online website submission and Email submission of manuscripts / paper/ article or other research work files. If Author / Authors /Submitters do not complete the publication process by submitting copyright form, /conflict of interest form with processing charge proof copy within 60 days, it will be considered as auto removal or auto cancellation. Journal, Editors, Reviewers and Publisher are not responsible and liable for the submitted soft copy manuscript file and its contents or storage, Author / Authors /Submitters cannot claim to retain submitted paper/ article / research work / manuscript retain right or copyright reservation rights and cannot claim against Journal, Editors, Reviewers and Publisher in lawsuit.
  • If Author / Authors /Submitters raised withdraw or cancel request of submitted paper/ article / research work / manuscript soft copy file within 60 days and after withdrawal or cancelation approved by the Editor/Journal side. then after Journal, Editors, Reviewers and Publisher are not responsible and liable for the submitted – withdrawn, cancelled soft copy manuscript file and its contents or storage.  Author / Authors /Submitters cannot claim to retain submitted paper/ article / research work / manuscript retain right or copyright reservation rights and cannot claim against Journal, Editors, Reviewers and Publisher in lawsuit.

Withdrawal/Cancellation of Published Paper/Article/Research work or manuscript provisions of the copyright in IJRCS:

  • If Author /Authors /Submitters cancel or withdraw the publication of paper/ article / research work / manuscript file from IJRCS after publication anytime in future by requesting of withdrawing letter – application to the Editor – IJRCS, after withdrawal or cancelation approved by the Editor/Journal side. All copyright agreement and publication terms, publication and certificate will be auto cancelled from IJRCS. Journal, Editors, Reviewers and Publisher are not responsible and liable for that withdrawal/ cancelled/ deleted file, certificate file and its contents or storage.  Author /Authors /Submitters cannot claim to retain submitted paper/ article / research work / manuscript retain right or copyright reservation rights and cannot claim against Journal, Editors, Reviewers and Publisher in lawsuit.  
  • In case of initial publication done from journal side with certificate, and author(s) has not paid the full processing charge as per journal instruction,  journal office will send 2 reminder emails and 1 withdrawal form – link to author(s),  if author(s) not respond it in 20 days time, Journal will auto cancel the publication file and certificate file from the website,  submitted copyright and undertaking from from the author also will be cancelled and cancellation email will be send to author’s communication email ID. Then publication will be considered as Cancelled/Removed.  All copyright agreement and publication terms, publication and certificate will be auto cancelled from IJRCS.  Journal, Editors, Reviewers and Publisher are not responsible and liable for that withdrawal/ cancelled/ deleted file, certificate file and its contents or storage.  Author /Authors /Submitters cannot claim to retain submitted paper/ article / research work / manuscript retain right or copyright reservation rights and cannot claim against Journal, Editors, Reviewers and Publisher in lawsuit.

 

Refund Policy : As per instructions and policies on the journal website; the author/authors/contributors are acknowledging and agreeing to pay the processing charge (fee)  for accepted manuscript/paper/article by reading our norms, guidelines and publication policy.  If paper/ article processed – accepted and author/authors/contributors complete the process with final submission  of documents and payment of processing – publication charge then after paid fee will be non-refundable as per our publication policy and norms.    ‘No Refund’  for  processed or  accepted  or  published  paper/article/manuscripts .
In only case of any authors submit paper/article as per guidelines online on website or by email, and by mistakenly paid prior processing /fee (APC) against our submission guidelines – policy,  and after if suppose his/her paper/article not processed/reviewed, then refund will be payable as 80% of paid amount. In case of  author pay dual charge (2 time charge/fee for the same accepted paper/article file) then also 80% of paid amount will be as refund.

 

The Managing Editor / The Executive Managing Editor,

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH CULTURE SOCIETY (IJRCS)