Baba Farid Group of Institutions

OPEN ACCESS & LICENSING POLICY

In order to ensure maximum reach of Basic and Applied Scientific Research: An International Journal contents, we have adopted the open access policy, meaning that

• All the articles published in Basic and Applied Scientific Research: An International Journal are made freely accessible online immediately after publication in an easily readable format, without any subscription or registration barrier.
• All the published articles are licensed under a Creative Commons license. Articles can be shared and adapted, provided the attribution for the work is given
  To fully realise the potential of open access to research literature, barriers to reuse need to be removed. The Creative Commons (CC) licenses have emerged as an effective legal instrument to achieve this. Instead of transferring rights exclusively to publishers (the approach usually followed in subscription publishing), authors grant a non-exclusive license to the publisher to distribute the work, and all users and readers are granted rights to reuse the work. CC-BY allows for unrestricted reuse of content, subject only to the requirement that the source work is appropriately attributed. The CC-BY license thereby requires that authors are given appropriate credit for their work, as explained in a recent post from Creative Commons

PEER-REVIEW POLICY

The research papers submit for publication follows the peer review policy. The editor of journal receives submitted papers with after checking and verification of the plagiarism report, quality and relevance to scope of the journal. The covering letter should contain names of three potent reviewers, their designation and institution along with their email ids. The editor send the paper to reviewers for peer review purpose and allot duration for 3 weeks, which is extendable on request of reviewer’s availability but no more than 5 weeks in any case. The peer-reviewers submit their reports via online link which provided by the editor. After the review process, the manuscript will be sent to the corresponding author if there are any corrections or queries. Once the queries are answered by the corresponding author, then it will be finalized and published in Basic and Applied Scientific Research: An International Journal.
All the manuscripts submitted to Basic and Applied Scientific Research: An International Journal will be subjected to double blinded peer review process:

• The manuscript will be reviewed by two suitable experts in respective subject area
• The reports of both the reviewers will be considered while deciding on acceptance/revision or rejection of a manuscript
• Editor will make the final decision, based on reviewer’s comments
• Editor can ask one or more of the advisory board members for their suggestions upon a manuscript, before making the final decision
• Associate editor and review editors provide the administrative support to maintain the integrity of peer review process
• In case, authors challenge editor's negative decision with suitable arguments, the manuscript can be sent to one more reviewer and the final decision will be made based upon his recommendations.

NO PROCESSING/PUBLICATION FEES

No fees from the Author for manuscript review/processing/publishing research articles/review/papers in the Basic and Applied Scientific Research: An International Journal.

DISCLAIMER

The author(s) of each article appearing in this Journal is/are solely responsible for the content thereof; neither the Basic and Applied Scientific Research: An International Journal nor its editors or publisher or anyone else involved in creating, producing or distribution assumes any liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information provided in the Journal, nor shall they be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages arising out of the use of Basic and Applied Scientific Research: An International Journal

PLAGIARISM

For every Journal, the peer review process is at the heart of the success of publishing. As part of our commitment to the protection and enhancement of the peer review process, The Basic and Applied Scientific Research: An International Journal would like to ensure that all published articles are within the accepted level of plagiarism. The Journal uses the very well and widely accepted Plagiarism Detection tools Grammerly/Turnitin. All submitted Manuscripts are first subjected to Plagiarism check and then the Publishing cycle begins. In case, plagiarism is detected during review/editorial process, such manuscript(s) will be rejected immediately and we can also consider other steps depending upon the seriousness of the case. If the plagiarism is proven after publication, such manuscript(s) will be removed from our website and appropriate announcement will be placed in this regards. Further, " Basic and Applied Scientific Research: An International Journal" can bring such instances in notice of author's funding agencies, author's institutes (where they work) and to the original authors whose work has been plagiarized.

ARTICLE RETRACTION

Editor’s decision is the decisive factor for all scholarly publications. However, this decision is based on Editorial Policies – which includes plagiarism, copyright etc. It becomes important to retain the Published articles as it is – without any alterations. However, owing to certain circumstances, a published article may at times be retracted, removed or may require a change. Retraction could be due to:

• Plagiarism
• Bogus Authorship
• Fraudulent Data
• Correction in Publication