Access, Reuse, Authorship, APC and Plagiarism Policies

 

1. Copyright Notice and Open Access Policy

Open Access Policy and Creative Commons

EDUCA provides immediate open access to its content, based on the principle that offering the public free access to research promotes greater global exchange of knowledge. The journal does not charge any fee to subscribers or readers for accessing the articles.

Readers may access the full content of the articles freely and at no cost. Authors retain publication rights. The Creative Commons license used by this journal is CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivatives 4.0 International). Readers and authors are free to share, copy, and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
They must always comply with the following terms:

  • Attribution: You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in a way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

  • NonCommercial: You may not use the material for commercial purposes.

  • NoDerivatives: If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.

  • No additional restrictions: You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Works published in this journal are subject to the following terms:

  1. The author retains the economic rights (copyright) of the published works and grants the journal the right of first publication.

  2. Works are published in the electronic edition of the journal under a Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (legal text). They may be copied, used, distributed, transmitted, and publicly displayed, provided that:
    i) authorship and the original source of publication (journal, publisher, and article URL) are cited;
    ii) they are not used for commercial purposes;
    iii) the existence and specifications of this license are mentioned.

  3. Self-archiving conditions. Authors are allowed and encouraged to disseminate post-print versions (editorial version) electronically, as this favors earlier circulation and dissemination and may increase citation and academic reach. Authors may also deposit their articles in repositories and various platforms that contribute to the dissemination of information, provided it is the post-print (editorial) version.
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2. Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal will be used exclusively for the purposes stated by the journal and will not be made available to third parties or used for any other purposes.

3. Ethics and Malpractice

Editorial Board

Journals must have editorial boards or other governing bodies whose members are recognized experts in the field. The full names and affiliations of board members must be available on the journal’s website.

Journals must provide contact information for the editorial office on the journal’s website.

4. Authors and Author Responsibilities

Any fee or charge required for manuscript processing and/or publication must be clearly indicated before authors begin preparing their manuscripts for submission.

Authors are required to participate in the peer-review process.

All authors must have made a significant contribution to the research.

All authors are required to provide retractions or corrections of errors when necessary.

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It is prohibited to publish the same research in more than one journal.

5. Peer Review Process

All journal content must undergo peer review.

Peer review is defined as obtaining advice on individual manuscripts from reviewers who are experts in the field.

6. Plagiarism and Anti-Plagiarism Detection

The EDUCA journal uses the Crossref Similarity Check plagiarism detection system. All articles are screened for plagiarism before entering peer review. If the editor detects a plagiarism percentage higher than 20%, or an excessive amount of unjustified self-citation, the article will be automatically returned to the author without initiating peer review.

The plagiarism detector is applied twice during the editorial process:

  • upon initial receipt of the article, and

  • to the final version before publication.