Editorial Policy
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1- GENERAL INFORMATION
The Editorial policy and the Publication Ethics and Malpractice
Statement (PEMS) support combined efforts by Authors, Editors, and Reviewers to produce
a responsible research publication.
All authors must know and keep in mind The Editorial policy and the Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement (PEMS).
Guidelines for the submission of articles and manuscript preparation and format are to be found
on the 'Guidelines for Authors' webpage.
Collection of Proceedings of Tanta University 1st Architecture and Urbanism International Conference (Tuauic'26)» strictly adheres to the ethics and policies of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and Publishing Ethics
Resource Kit for Editors (PERK) (Elsevier).
COPE’s flowcharts and guidelines and Publishing Ethics Resource
Kit for editors (PERK) (Elsevier) are approached upon confronting any ethical
misbehavior.
Principles of Editorial (Publishing) Activity
The release of Collection in the activity follows next transnational principles:
- executes the requirements of Committee on
Publication Ethics (COPE), of Budapest Open Access
Initiative (BOAI) and Berlin Declaration Open Access to
Knowledge in
the Sciences and Humanities;
- adheres to editorial independence;
- gives priority to the discussion and discussions;
- removes any conflicts of interests according to the worked out mechanism;
- encourages and supports scientific honesty;
- gives advantage to the intellectual standards and levels of materials, but not
to the financial and political benefit and commercial reasoning;
- satisfies scientific necessities and interests of authors and readers;
- systematic conducts work after to the improvement Collection;
- quality of materials which are published guarantees;
- provides anonymity in the system of mutual relations "Author is Reviewer
(-ers)";
- informs the authors of rules and requirements of publication;
- provides freedom of expression of opinions of authors of the articles;
- watches after the observance of intellectual ownership rights;
- develops recommendations and rules of criticizing of manuscripts;
- protects confidentiality of these individual recipients – investigated which
participated in psycholinguistic лонгитюдних and mass experimentsх;
- develops the mechanisms of decision of conflict of interests;
- operatively publishes a correction, clarification, refutation and apology, when
it is necessary;
- foresees possibility of realization of appeal;
- adheres to tolerance in intercourse.
Functions of International Scientific and Editorial Council:
- Consultative (providing when it is necessary
special consultations by the Editorial members and Reviewers on some new, less studied and
discursive problematic aspects of ICASGE).
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Developing pragmatic (contribution
to the Collection developing and realization of international scientific cooperation,
searching for new forms and methods of Collection functioning, improvement of its Editorial
policy).
- Expert (providing articles reviewing, expertise
(in cases needed) of reviews and reviewed articles, specialized evaluation of Collection
quality, appropriateness and compositioning of articles in it).
- Advisory (participation in Collection composing,
decision making on articles published, influence on decision making process and others).
Co-Operating is with Authors
In co-operating with Аuthors the editorial board ofCollection follows such
rules:
- carries out all necessary measures for providing of quality of materials which are presented
and subject to the next publication;
- provides the observance of the set mechanisms of criticizing of the articles, and also
refutation or abolition of decisions, accepted by a release;
- necessarily informs the author of manuscript or about the acceptance of the article to
printing, whether about the necessity of her revision, whether about the rejection of the
article;
- gives the argued description of expert estimation of the article presented to printing.
Co-Operating is with Reviewers
In co-operating with Reviewers the release of Collection adheres to
the next rules:
- presents to the reviewers instruction and recommendations from criticizing of manuscripts;
- provides reviewers the system of verification of degree of originality of the article;
- avouches for reviewers confidentiality;
- presents possibility (right) to give up criticizing without explanation of reasons of refuse
(except the set conflict of interests);
- examines criticizing as inalienable part of evaluation of scientific publication, which
confirms high quality of the scientific articles.
Criticizing foresees work with those reviewers – experts of Collection, which are the
acknowledged specialists in the corresponding to the article sphere of knowledge. For this
purpose release, except the members of editorial board co-operates with the wide circle of
research workers from the different countries of the world. The article is accepted to printing
only after her discussion on meeting of editorial board of magazine at presence of positive
review of reviewer and support of members of editorial board majority. The geared-up in full
number of Collection is examined and recommended to printing the decision of Scientific advice
of Tanta University, Faculty of Engineering.
Co-Operating is with Readers
- Any reader or potential author has the opportunity to appeal to the members of editorial
board after elucidation of incomprehensible professional questions which answer the subjects
of Collection, sending sheet on the e-mail of publishing house of icasge@unv.tanta.edu.eg;
- a release informs readers, whose account the article is printed for, what role of sponsors
in realization of research, presented in her;
- gives to the readers the materials high-quality executed in intellectually-semantic and
lingually-stylistic aspects;
- satisfies the requirements of readers in materials of both fundamental and applied
character, both in theoretical and in the experimental-applied measuring;
- provides the real expectation of readers in relation to originality, novelty and actuality
of materials, their readability and clearness.
- 1.1. Ethics Topics to Consider Authors when Publishing
- Policies on Authorship and Contributorship.The authorship be based on the
following 4
criteria:
- Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition,
analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND
- Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND
- Final approval of the version to be published; AND
- Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions
related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately
investigated and resolved.
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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.
Data Access and Retention.
Authors may be 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.
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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.
Collection of
Proceedings do not view the following uses of a work as prior publication: publication
in
the form of an abstract; publication as an academic thesis; publication as an electronic
preprint.
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Information on publication is included its Guide for Authors.
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Acknowledgement of
Sources. Proper acknowledgment.
Disclosure and Conflicts of
Interest. All submissions must include disclosure of all
relationships that could be viewed as presenting a potential conflict of
interest.
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.
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.
Hazards and
Human. Statements of compliance are required if
the work involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards
inherent in their use, or if it involves the use of human subjects.
Use of Patient Images or Case
Details. Studies on patients or volunteers require ethics
committee approval and informed consent, which should be documented in the paper.
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1.3. Review Policy
- Authors are obliged, for all materials submitted, to participate in a peer review
process and to follow publication conventions.
- All authors are obliged to make the requested changes and correct mistakes. When changes
are asked for, the authors have a certain timeline for submitting their modifications.
In each case, the authors and reviewers will come to a common understanding of the
deadline, based on the nature and quantity of the requested changes.
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1.6. Archiving
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- This Collection of Proceedings of Tanta University 1st Architecture and Urbanism International Conference (Tuauic'26) utilizes the LOCKSS system to
create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits
those libraries to create permanent archives of the Collection for purposes of
preservation and restoration.
- Authors are allowed to self-archive articles published in Collection of Proceedings
of Tanta University 1st Architecture and Urbanism International Conference (Tuauic'26) in institutional or thematic repositories recognized in
their fields.
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1.7. Open Access Policy
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- he Collection of Proceedings of Tanta University 1st Architecture and Urbanism International Conference (Tuauic'26) adheres to public access policy
(Open Access). All papers are placed at the journal website without limit in time
and free of charge immediately after publication of the journal, distributed through
the system of national libraries, and kept there in hard copies. Full text access to
papers of the journal is provided in real time mode at the journal official website,
in Proceedings (Archives).
- Articles are published in open access. There are no associated subscriptions or
pay-per-view fees.
- It complies with the definition of open access by Tanta University, Faculty of Engineering. The
licensing policy of the journal is commensurate with the majority of public access
and archiving policies.
- The Collection of Proceedings of Tanta University 1st Architecture and Urbanism International Conference (Tuauic'26)» works by Tanta University, Faculty of Engineering. It
allows users to read, download, copy, spread, print, search, quote or refer to the
full text of a scientific paper in this scientific publication.
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1.8. Plagiarism Policy
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- The Collection of Proceedings of Tanta University 1st Architecture and Urbanism International Conference (Tuauic'26) accepts for publication only
original materials and papers that have never been published before or submitted for
publication to other scientific Collection.
- The Editorial Board of the Collection of Proceedings of Tanta University 1st Architecture and Urbanism International Conference (Tuauic'26) makes use of the
following software to examine the submitted manuscripts for text borrowing:
Unicheck. The manuscripts where plagiarism or text borrowings are found, without
references to the source document, shall be rejected by the Editorial Board for
further examination of reasons and circumstances of such borrowing.
Recommendations for Authors on Avoiding Plagiarism
