Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The Educhild Journal accepts articles about the following studies:

1. Social science education
2. Mathematics education in
3. Language education
4. Science education
5. Arts and culture education
6. Citizenship education
7. Religious education
8. Sports education
9. Learning and teaching
10. Psychology Education
11. Learning media
12. Management of education
13. Learning media and educational technology
14. Music education
15. Dance and drama education
16. Environment education
17. Early Childhood Education

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

Peer Review Process

The editor conducts a review of the quality and type of submission before sending it to the reviewer. Manuscripts that do not meet scientific writing standards will not be considered for further review processes. Authors are expected to follow the writing guidelines that have been informed in the Guidelines or Templates. The editor will also pay attention to the use of language and the editor will ask the author to resubmit the manuscript that does not meet the established standards.

The editor asks the reviewer to consider the state of the manuscript sent to the Educhild journal. After getting input from reviewers. The editor will also remind the reviewer of the time limit for reviewing a text. The editor will contact the author to inform the reviewer of the results.

  1. Peer Review submission process and steps.
  2. The author sends texts to the Educhild journal.
  3. Articles are examined by the editor and pay attention to the requirements that have been met by the article manuscript. The author will be given information about whether the manuscript was rejected or accepted.
  4. Reviewers will review the text of the article that has been sent.
  5. Has the editor's response will send the results of the reviews that have been made and provide the necessary corrections.
  6. The article resubmitted for review.
  7. The Chief Editor can accept, reject, accept with few changes, or send a third review.
  8. If accepted, the author must submit the final version. Versions will be added to the "in-press" queue with the publisher.
  9. Before publication, the publisher will send a galley to the author. Editing cannot be done after the gallery has been approved.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

This journal is open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to users or / institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to full-text articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or author. This is in accordance with Budapest Open Access Initiative.

 

Budapest Open Access Initiative

An old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an unprecedented public good. The old tradition is the willingness of scientists and scholars to publish the fruits of their research in scholarly journals without payment, for the sake of inquiry and knowledge. The new technology is the internet. The public good they make possible is the world-wide electronic distribution of the peer-reviewed journal literature and completely free and unrestricted access to it by all scientists, scholars, teachers, students, and other curious minds. Removing access barriers to this literature will accelerate research, enrich education, share the learning of the rich with the poor and the poor with the rich, make this literature as useful as it can be, and lay the foundation for uniting humanity in a common intellectual conversation and quest for knowledge.

For various reasons, this kind of free and unrestricted online availability, which we will call open access, has so far been limited to small portions of the journal literature. But even in these limited collections, many different initiatives have shown that open access is economically feasible, that it gives readers extraordinary power to find and make use of relevant literature, and that it gives authors and their works vast and measurable new visibility, readership, and impact. To secure these benefits for all, we call on all interested institutions and individuals to help open up access to the rest of this literature and remove the barriers, especially the price barriers, that stand in the way. The more who join the effort to advance this cause, the sooner we will all enjoy the benefits of open access.

The literature that should be freely accessible online is that which scholars give to the world without expectation of payment. Primarily, this category encompasses their peer-reviewed journal articles, but it also includes any unreviewed preprints that they might wish to put online for comment or to alert colleagues to important research findings. There are many degrees and kinds of wider and easier access to this literature. By "open access" to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.

While the peer-reviewed journal literature should be accessible online without cost to readers, it is not costless to produce. However, experiments show that the overall costs of providing open access to this literature are far lower than the costs of traditional forms of dissemination. With such an opportunity to save money and expand the scope of dissemination at the same time, there is today a strong incentive for professional associations, universities, libraries, foundations, and others to embrace open access as a means of advancing their missions. Achieving open access will require new cost recovery models and financing mechanisms, but the significantly lower overall cost of dissemination is a reason to be confident that the goal is attainable and not merely preferable or utopian.

To achieve open access to scholarly journal literature, we recommend two complementary strategies.

I. Self-Archiving: First, scholars need the tools and assistance to deposit their refereed journal articles in open electronic archives, a practice commonly called, self-archiving. When these archives conform to standards created by the Open Archives Initiative, then search engines and other tools can treat the separate archives as one. Users then need not know which archives exist or where they are located in order to find and make use of their contents.

II. Open-access Journals: Second, scholars need the means to launch a new generation of journals committed to open access, and to help existing journals that elect to make the transition to open access. Because journal articles should be disseminated as widely as possible, these new journals will no longer invoke copyright to restrict access to and use of the material they publish. Instead they will use copyright and other tools to ensure permanent open access to all the articles they publish. Because price is a barrier to access, these new journals will not charge subscription or access fees, and will turn to other methods for covering their expenses. There are many alternative sources of funds for this purpose, including the foundations and governments that fund research, the universities and laboratories that employ researchers, endowments set up by discipline or institution, friends of the cause of open access, profits from the sale of add-ons to the basic texts, funds freed up by the demise or cancellation of journals charging traditional subscription or access fees, or even contributions from the researchers themselves. There is no need to favor one of these solutions over the others for all disciplines or nations, and no need to stop looking for other, creative alternatives.

Open access to peer-reviewed journal literature is the goal. Self-archiving (I.) and a new generation of open-access journals (II.) are the ways to attain this goal. They are not only direct and effective means to this end, they are within the reach of scholars themselves, immediately, and need not wait on changes brought about by markets or legislation. While we endorse the two strategies just outlined, we also encourage experimentation with further ways to make the transition from the present methods of dissemination to open access. Flexibility, experimentation, and adaptation to local circumstances are the best ways to assure that progress in diverse settings will be rapid, secure, and long-lived.

The Open Society Institute, the foundation network founded by philanthropist George Soros, is committed to providing initial help and funding to realize this goal. It will use its resources and influence to extend and promote institutional self-archiving, to launch new open-access journals, and to help an open-access journal system become economically self-sustaining. While the Open Society Institute's commitment and resources are substantial, this initiative is very much in need of other organizations to lend their effort and resources.

We invite governments, universities, libraries, journal editors, publishers, foundations, learned societies, professional associations, and individual scholars who share our vision to join us in the task of removing the barriers to open access and building a future in which research and education in every part of the world are that much more free to flourish.

February 14, 2002
Budapest, Hungary

Leslie Chan: Bioline International
Darius Cuplinskas: Director, Information Program, Open Society Institute
Michael Eisen: Public Library of Science
Fred Friend: Director Scholarly Communication, University College London
Yana Genova: Next Page Foundation
Jean-Claude Gu don: University of Montreal
Melissa Hagemann: Program Officer, Information Program, Open Society Institute
Stevan Harnad: Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Southampton, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
Rick Johnson: Director, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
Rima Kupryte: Open Society Institute
Manfredi La Manna: Electronic Society for Social Scientists
Istv n R v: Open Society Institute, Open Society Archives
Monika Segbert: eIFL Project consultant
Sidnei de Souza: Informatics Director at CRIA, Bioline International
Jan Velterop: Publisher, BioMed Central

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Screening Plagiarism

Plagiarism screening will be conducted by OJS Editorial Board using Turnitin and Grammarly Plagiarism Checker

 

Publication Ethics

The Educhild Journal is a peer-review journal. Educhild Journal follows the guidelines of the Publication Ethics Committee (COPE) which follows the ethical aspects of publication. This statement explains all parties such as the Editor in Chief, the Editorial Board, peer reviewers, writers, and publishers. The Educhild Journal is dedicated to good practice in writing ethics. The Educhild Journal will not tolerate the practice of plagiarism.

In the following sections, we explain the standards that will be followed by editors, reviewers, and writers.

 For editors:

  1. Based on the review of the editorial review board, editors can accept, reject, and accept the manuscript.
  2. The editor is responsible for the articles published in the Educhild Journal.
  3. The editor can communicate with other editors or reviewers to make decisions.
  4. The editor must evaluate the text objectively, judging without looking at something such as, race, creed or religion, affiliation, gender, politics, and other things that would interfere with an editor's objectivity.
  5. The editor needs to make sure the manuscript sent to reviewers does not contain the author's information and vice versa.
  6. Editor's decision must be informed to the author with the comments of reviewers (unless the comments of reviewers do not comply with communication norms)
  7. The editor must respect the author's request
  8. The editor must maintain the confidentiality of the text sent
  9. The editor is guided by a COPE flowchart if there are alleged violations or disputed authorship.

 For Reviewer

  1. Reviewers give statements on the publication text.
  2. The reviewer conducts a timely review and notifies the editor if he cannot complete the work.
  3. Reviewers maintain the confidentiality of the text received
  4. Reviewers may not review texts that have problems between reviewers and the authors.

 For Author

  1. The author must ensure that the manuscript sent has never been published before.
  2. The author must ensure the authenticity of the manuscript and quote other people's manuscripts in accordance with applicable regulations.
  3. The author cannot do plagiarism.
  4. The authors must follow the Educhild Journal Writing Guidelines.
  5. The author is a person who makes a significant contribution to the article submitted.
  6. The author must provide a data editor and job details if there is suspicious data.
  7. The author contacts the editor's editor if there are errors in the publication.

Disclaimer

The Educhild Journal Editor strives to ensure the accuracy of all published information. However, the Educhild Journal Editor makes no representations or warranties regarding the accuracy, completeness, or suitability for the purposes of any Content and disclaims all such representations and warranties express or implied to the maximum extent permitted by law. Every view expressed in this publication is the view of the author and is not always the view of the Educhild Journal Editor.