Ethics Policy and Copyright

Open Access
All articles published by JSSB are open access. This means the articles have undergone the peer review process and upon acceptance by JSSB are available for everyone to read and download. There will be no fees involved.

Ethics Policy
Authorship: Limited to those who have made a significant contribution to any part of the reported study. JSSB encourages transparency of the contributions of authors, i.e., ‘Acknowledgement’ section.

Originality and plagiarism: Author(s) should ensure that their work is entirely original. Appropriate citation and quotation should be used and/or permission should be obtained when using the works or data of others.

Data access and retention: Author(s) may be required to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review and should be prepared to provide public access to such data.

Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication: Author(s) should not in general concurrently submit manuscripts nor publish the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. 

Work not considered as prior publication: 

• Publication in the form of an abstract
• Publication as an academic thesis

Disclosure and conflicts of interest: If a conflict of interest is present, author(s) must declare it in their manuscript submission.

Errors: The author(s) is accountable to cooperate with JSSB to ensure corrections/ retractions are made promptly if significant error(s) or inaccuracy are detected in their published work.

Use of private information: Any use of private information that requires ethics committee approval and informed consent should be documented in the paper.

Copyright
Intellectual property aims to protect the intangible creation of human intellect and copyright is a type of intellectual property. The copyright permits the owner of original creative work, in the form of literacy, artistic, educational or musical, to decide if and how his or her work may be used by others. While the exact duration of a copyright of work varies between countries, the literacy work including the academic article is generally subject to the life of a creator.

Copyright at JSSB
After the peer-review process and if accepted to be published in JSSB, the corresponding author will receive the Author Copyright Agreement. The corresponding author is responsible for correcting page proofs and working with the production editor. The first author must sign the copyright agreement form. In signing this agreement, you would have agreed to transfer the copyright to us as the owner and publisher of the JSSB. 

Assigning the copyright also means that the editorial team of JSSB acts as stewards of your academic work as it appears in the scholarly record whereas you, as the original creator of the work, retain the right to be credited as the author(s) of the article. The Editor of JSSB is empowered to make necessary, non-substantive, editorial changes to make the article suitable for publication. This is to ensure your work is made available to the wider academic community.