Ethical Principles and Publication Policy

KMU EFAD
ETHICAL PRINCIPLES AND PUBLICATION POLICY

In Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University Faculty of Literature Journal (KMU EFAD), publication processes are carried out in a way to serve the development of impartial and reputable knowledge. Within the scope of publication ethics, our journal adopts the principles of the International Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) "Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" and "Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers" and expects all stakeholders (readers, authors, referees, publishers and editors) to fulfil the following ethical responsibilities. The following ethical duties and responsibilities have been prepared in open access, taking into account the guidelines and policies published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and Council of Higher Education Institutions (CoHE) (see https://publicationethics.org). All stakeholders should pay attention to the standardised general and specific ethical rules and responsibilities shared below.

The management of our journal is committed to the successful execution and improvement of the article acceptance, evaluation and publication processes within the framework of ethical publishing rules. It welcomes the stakeholders and readers of the research to report plagiarism, duplicate publication, inaccuracy, suspicious content or situations they see in the reviews published in Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University Journal of Faculty of Letters to efad@kmu.edu.tr e-mail address. It reports the data and results obtained on the subject to the relevant parties and follows up.

1. STAKEHOLDER RESPONSIBILITIES

a) Editors' Responsibilities

KMU EFAD editor and assistant editors, Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors (COPE) published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors) will provide the following ethical duties and responsibilities. :

Editors have the responsibility and authority to accept or reject articles. They must use this responsibility and authority in a proper and timely manner.
Editors should prioritise academic concerns and criteria when accepting articles to the journal.
Editors should not be in a conflict of interest/relationship with the articles they accept or reject.
Editors should accept original articles that will contribute to the relevant fields specified in the journal policy.
Editors should reject incomplete and erroneous research that does not comply with the journal policy, publication rules and level without any influence.
Editors should allow inaccurate, incomplete and problematic articles to be withdrawn before or after the referee report or to be published after correction.
Editors are responsible for ensuring that manuscripts evaluated by at least two referees are evaluated according to a double-blind refereeing system and for keeping the names of referees and authors confidential.
Editors continue their work processes without compromising intellectual property rights and ethical standards.
The editors take responsibility for the plagiarism status of the articles through "Turnitin and/or Ithenticate" plagiarism programmes and whether they are unpublished original research.
The editors take into account the knowledge, skills and experience required by all readers, researchers and practitioners.
The editors take care that the published issues contribute to the reader, researcher, practitioner and the scientific field and are of original quality.
The editors ensure that all members of the advisory committee advance the processes in accordance with the publication policies and guidelines.
The editors inform the advisory committee members about the publication policies.
Editors ensure that advisory committee members evaluate their work independently.
Editors can contribute to new advisory board members and make decisions as appropriate.
Editors should submit manuscripts appropriate to the expertise of advisory board members for evaluation.
Editors interact regularly with the advisory board.
Editors organise regular meetings with the editorial board to discuss editorial policies and journal development.
The relationship between the editors (Editor and Associate Editors) and the publisher is based on the principle of editorial independence. According to the written agreement between the editors and the publisher, all decisions of the editors are independent of the publisher and the owner of the journal.
It is the duty of the editors to complete the preliminary review, refereeing, editing and publishing processes of the articles submitted to the journal in a timely and healthy manner.

b) Authors' responsibilities

It is the responsibility of the author to ensure that the submitted article is original and research-based in accordance with the specified academic fields.
The submitted article should not be contrary to scientific publication ethics (plagiarism, forgery, distortion, republication, slicing, unfair authorship, not specifying the supporting organisation).
The article should not be submitted to different journals/journals at the same time and should not have been published in another journal/journal before.
It is against the ethics of science to include the names of people who have not made academic contributions to the article as authors or to rank authors based on unscientific criteria such as title, age and gender without considering the order of contribution. It should not be suggested to change the order of authors, remove authors, or add authors to an article submitted for publication. In order for a study to be published, the consent of all authors must be obtained.
The author(s) are obliged to submit the raw data of the article to the editor if requested by the journal editors.
It is assumed that the authors submitting an article to the journal have read and accepted the journal's publication and writing principles, and the authors are deemed to have undertaken what is expected of them in these principles.
The references cited must be indicated in the bibliography and the "References" list must be prepared completely and accurately.
The author(s) are obliged to contact the editor to inform the editor, to correct or withdraw the article when they realise an error related to their articles in the evaluation and early view stage or published electronically.
The author(s) should take into account the Directive on Scientific Research and Publication Ethics as stated by the Council of Higher Education (CoHE).

c) Referees' responsibilities

Reviewers should evaluate the manuscript to be published in the journal with the responsibility to promote academic quality.
Reviewers should only accept to review manuscripts for which they have the necessary expertise to make an appropriate assessment, can observe blind reviewer confidentiality, and can keep the details of the manuscript confidential in every way.
During and after the manuscript review process, no information about the manuscript should be shared with others in any way.
Reviewers should only evaluate the accuracy of the content of the articles and their compliance with academic criteria.
The fact that the ideas put forward in the article differ from the referee's thoughts should not affect the evaluation.
Evaluations should be made impartially and referee reports should be objective and measured. Insulting, condescending and accusatory expressions should be avoided.
Referees should avoid superficial and vague statements in their evaluation reports. In evaluations with negative results, the deficient and defective issues on which the result is based should be shown concretely.
Referees should evaluate the manuscripts within the time allocated to them. If they will not evaluate the manuscript, they should notify the journal within a reasonable period of time.
There should be no conflict of interest between the referees and the stakeholders of the article under evaluation.
The completion of other articles, artefacts, references, citations, rules and similar deficiencies related to the article should be pointed out.
Based on the double-blind refereeing system, evaluated articles or referees are not disclosed.

2. GENERAL ACTIONS AGAINST SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION ETHICS

a) Plagiarism: Presenting the ideas, methods, data, practices, writings, figures or works of others as one's own, in whole or in part, without attribution, in accordance with the rules of scientific ethics,
b) Fraud: Presenting data that is not based on research, editing or altering the presented or published work on the basis of untrue data, reporting or publishing these, presenting unexamined research as if it had been done,
c) Distortion: To falsify research records and data; to present methods, equipment, and materials not used in the research as if they had been used; to fail to evaluate data that do not conform to the research hypothesis; to manipulate data or results to conform to the theory or assumptions in question, in accordance with the interests of the persons and organisations receiving the funding; to falsify or distort research results,
d) Duplicate publication: Presenting more than one paper containing the same research results as separate papers in associate professor exams and academic promotions,
e) Slicing: Presenting the results of research as separate works in certain examination evaluations and academic incentives and promotions by dividing the results of research in a way that violates the integrity of the research, by dividing it into parts inappropriately, and by making multiple publications without reference to each other,
f) Unfair authorship: Adding people who have not actively contributed to the article as authors, not including those who have actively contributed among the authors, changing the order of authors unjustifiably and inappropriately, removing the names of those who have actively contributed from the work during publication or in subsequent editions, using their influence even though they have not actively contributed,
g) Other types of ethical violations: Failure to clearly identify the supporting persons, institutions or organisations and their contributions to the research in publications of supported research; Failure to follow ethical rules in research involving humans and animals; Failure to respect patients' rights in their publications; Sharing the information contained in the work with others before it is published; Misusing the resources, places, facilities and equipment provided or reserved for scientific research; Making completely unfounded, unsubstantiated and intentional allegations of ethical violations (CoHE Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive, Article 8).

3. PLAGIARISM POLICY

As of December 2018, Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University Journal of the Faculty of Letters (EFAD) has started to check the studies submitted for publication through plagiarism programs (Turnitin or iThenticate). The author should also send the document showing the plagiarism rate with the work. Studies with a plagiarism rate of more than 15% (excluding references) are not evaluated and returned to the author. If a work published in the journal is found to be plagiarism, the Editorial Board reserves the right to take various actions, including retracting the article and reporting the issue to the department head, dean and/or relevant institutions in the institution where the author works.

4. OPEN ACCESS POLICY

Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University Journal of the Faculty of Letters (KMU EFAD) provides open access for the continuous and free use of its content in order to increase the global exchange of information and produce beneficial results for humanity. In this context, all articles published in the journal are accessible at https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/efad/archive. The entire content of the journal can be accessed free of charge by individuals and organisations. All users can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search and link to the full text of the articles published in the journal without permission from the authors or the journal management.

Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University Journal of the Faculty of Letters (KMU EFAD) has adopted an open-access policy with its publication. Open access increases the global exchange of information, resulting in beneficial results for humanity. KMU EFAD also supports the Budapest Open Access Initiative, adopted on 12 September 2012.

In this context, open access policies adopted by the editorial board of Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University Journal of the Faculty of Letters (KMU EFAD) are available at http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai-10-translations/turkish-translation.

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As Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University Journal of the Faculty of Letters (KMU EFAD), our DOI Number registration, provided by Crossref, has been started on October 23, 2020. All articles to be published in our journal will now have a DOI number. In this way, confusion has been avoided in the citations to all articles to be published in our journal, and you can access your articles uninterruptedly, precisely and easily whenever you want.

5. COPYRIGHT POLICY

Authors submitting manuscripts to our journal are required to read and approve the following copyright agreement while uploading their manuscripts to the online system of our journal.
Manuscripts submitted to our journal must not have been previously published in any medium or sent to any publication medium for publication.
Authors submitting manuscripts read and approve the following copyright notice text on the checklist screen while uploading their manuscripts to the online system of our journal. By ticking the "I declare that it complies with the above items" box at the end of the checklist, they are deemed to have accepted the copyright notice text.

Copyright Notice Text
Author(s);
1. That the submitted article is the original work of the author(s) and that they have not plagiarised,
2. That all authors have individually participated in this study and take full responsibility for this study,
3. That all authors have seen and approved the final version of the submitted manuscript,
4. That the article has not been published elsewhere or submitted for publication,
5. They accept and undertake that the text, figures and documents in the article do not violate the copyrights of other persons.

Authors are deemed to have accepted the following conditions by submitting their work to the journal under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence.
1. The copyright of the published article belongs to the author.
2. Authors authorise this Journal to publish the article and to identify itself as the original publisher.
3. Authors grant any third party the right to use the article freely, as long as the original authors and citation details are identified.
4. Nothing in this licence impairs or restricts an author's right to protect the integrity and ownership of their work.
5. All commercial rights related to the article belong to the authors.

6. PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA

The editors ensure the protection of personal data related to the subjects or images included in the evaluated work. Those who contribute to the journal (editors, authors and referees) are given documents showing their contributions upon request.

7. ETHICS COMMITTEE, HUMAN AND ANIMAL RIGHTS

Editors ensure the protection of human and animal rights in the reviewed works. The editors have the responsibility to refuse the study when there is no approval from the ethics committee on the subjects used in the study and there is no permission for experimental research. In studies that require ethics committee permission, information about the permission (name of the committee, date and number) should be included in the method section and also on the first/last page of the article. In case reports, it is necessary to include information that the informed consent/consent form was signed in the article.

8. POSSIBLE ABUSE AND FRAUD MEASURES

Editors take precautions against possible abuse and misconduct. In addition to conducting a rigorous and objective investigation regarding the detection and evaluation of complaints regarding this situation, the responsibilities of the editor share the relevant findings with the competent authorities.

9. ENSURING ACADEMIC PUBLICATION INTEGRITY

Editors ensure that decisions that include errors, inconsistencies or misleading in the works are corrected quickly.

10. PROTECTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Editors are obliged to protect the intellectual property rights of all published articles to defend the rights of the journal and authors in case of possible violations and to take the necessary measures to ensure that the content of all published articles does not violate the intellectual property rights of other publications.

11. CONSTRUCTION AND DISCUSSION

Editors take into account the criticisms to be made against the works published in the journal and display a constructive attitude towards these criticisms in line with the purpose and scope of the journal. The authors of the criticized works have the right to reply. Studies with negative results are rejected.

12. COMPLAINTS

Editors are responsible for carefully reviewing complaints and responding to authors, reviewers or readers in an enlightening and explanatory manner.

13. POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL CONCERNS

The owner of the journal, its publisher and no other political or commercial factor can influence the independent decisions of the editors.

14. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

Editors assure and assure authors and reviewers that the publication process of the journal will be maintained independently and impartially.

15. PRIVACY STATEMENT

Personal information such as names and e-mail addresses entered in the journal management system of Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University Journal of the Faculty of Letters (KMU EFAD) will only be used for the scientific purposes of this journal. This information will not be used for any other purpose or department and will not be shared with third parties.

16. ARCHIVING POLICY

Metadata and full texts of all articles published in the Journal of Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University Faculty of Letters (KMU EFAD) are stored in XML and .pdf formats on a 3rd party cloud server in an inaccessible manner. In addition, all articles are stored and presented in .pdf format on ULAKBİM servers through TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM Journals Database (DergiPark).