Publication Ethics

 

SASAK Journal: Visual Design and Communication is a scientific journal in the field of Visual Design and Communication, published by Bumigora University Mataram. To maintain the quality of manuscripts and avoid publishing violations/plagiarism in the publishing process, the editorial board establishes scientific publication ethics. This publication ethics rule applies to authors/authors, editors, bestari/reviewer partners, and journal/editor managers.

Journal Manager Ethics

Decision-making; the journal manager/editor's board must describe the mission and goals of the organization, especially those relating to the establishment of policies and decisions to publish journals without any particular interest.
Freedom; Journal managers must give freedom to reviewers and editors to create a comfortable working atmosphere and respect the author's privacy.
Guarantees and promotions; Journal managers must guarantee and protect intellectual property rights (copyright). In addition, journal managers must publish and promote published results to the public by guaranteeing the benefits of using the manuscript.
Disclosure of conflicts of interest; Journal managers must understand the ethics of scientific publication above to avoid conflicts of interest with other parties, so that the manuscript publishing process runs smoothly and safely.

Ethics Author

Reporting; The author must provide information about the process and results of his research to the editors in an honest, clear and thorough manner, and keep his research data properly and safely stored.
Originality and plagiarism; the author must ensure that the manuscript that has been sent/submitted to the editor is an original manuscript, written by himself, sourced from his own ideas and ideas, and not plagiarizing other people's writings or ideas/ideas. Authors are strictly prohibited from changing the names of sources cited to other people's names.
Delivery repetition; The author must inform that the manuscript sent/submitted to the editor is a manuscript that has never been submitted/submitted to another journal/publication publisher. If there is a "redundancy" in sending manuscripts to other publishers, the editor will reject the manuscript sent by the author.
Author status; the author must inform the editor that the writer has the competence or qualifications in a certain field of expertise that is in accordance with the field of published science, namely librarianship. The author who sends the manuscript to the editor is the first author (co-author) so that if problems are found in the process of publishing the manuscript it can be resolved immediately.
Writing error script; The author must immediately inform the editor if an error is found in writing the manuscript, both the results of the review and the edits. These writing errors include writing names, affiliations/agencies, quotations, and other writings that can reduce the meaning and substance of the text. If that happens, the author must immediately propose improvements to the manuscript.
Disclosure of conflicts of interest; the author must understand the ethics of scientific publication above to avoid conflicts of interest with other parties, so that manuscripts can be processed smoothly and safely.

Ethics of Editors

decision publication; the editor must ensure that the manuscript review process is thorough, transparent, objective, fair, and thoughtful. This becomes the basis of the editor in making a decision on a manuscript, whether it is rejected or accepted. In this case, the editorial board acts as a manuscript selection team.

Publication information; The editor must ensure that guidelines for writing manuscripts for authors and other interested parties can be accessed and read clearly, both in print and electronic versions.
Distribution of peer-reviewed manuscripts; the editor must ensure the reviewer and the manuscript material for review, as well as clearly inform the provisions and process for reviewing the manuscript to the reviewer.
Objectivity and neutrality; Editors must be objective, neutral and honest in editing manuscripts, regardless of gender, business side, ethnicity, religion, race, inter-group and nationality of the author.
confidentiality; the editor must take good care of any information, especially related to the privacy of the author and the distribution of the manuscript.
Disclosure of conflicts of interest; the editor must understand the ethics of scientific publication above to avoid conflicts of interest with other parties, so that the manuscript publishing process runs smoothly and safely.

Reviewer Ethics

Objectivity and neutrality; reviewers must be honest, objective, unbiased, independent, and only side with scientific truth. The process of reviewing the manuscript is carried out professionally without distinguishing gender, business side, ethnicity, religion, race, inter-group, and the author's nationality.
Clarity of reference sources; the reviewer must ensure that the source of references/quotes from the manuscript is appropriate and credible (accountable). If an error or deviation is found in writing a reference/citation source, the reviewer must immediately inform the editor for corrections to be made by the author according to the notes from the reviewer.
Peer-reviewed effectiveness; the reviewer must respond to the manuscript that has been sent by the editor and work according to the established peer-review time (maximum 2 weeks). If you need additional time in reviewing the manuscript, you must immediately report (confirm) to the editorial secretariat.
Disclosure of conflicts of interest; reviewers must understand the ethics of scientific publication above to avoid conflicts of interest with other parties, so that the manuscript publishing process runs smoothly and safely.

Source: Committee On Publication Ethics (COPE)