Journal's Policies
Open Access Policy
All articles of the Journal are Open Access. Journal of Arabic Language & Literature is fully compliant with open access mandates, by publishing its articles under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). That means you are free to:
- Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
- Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
Digital Preservation Policy
Website Archiving
All of our electronic content (website, manuscripts, etc.) is stored on two different sources. Content on one server is online and accessible to the readers. The copy of the same content is kept as a backup on one other sources. In case of failure of one server, any one of the other sources can be made online and website expected to be accessible within less than 24-36 hours.
Abstracting/Indexing Services
Our journal’s Abstracting/Indexing services store many essential information about the articles. Additionally, two of our journal’s Abstracting/Indexing services (Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) and Iran Scientific Journals System) archive not only the metadata about the article, but the electronic versions of the articles, as well. Therefore, copies of the articles are available to the scientific community through their systems as an alternative to the journals own.
Self-Archiving
Authors may archive the final published version of their articles in personal or institutional repositories immediately after publication.
Complaint Policy
If the authors disagree with the editorial decision on their manuscripts they have a right to appeal. Authors who wish to appeal an editorial decision should contact the Editor-in-Chief of the specific journal. In such cases the Editor-in-Chief will review the manuscript, editorial and peer reviewers' comments and give his/her decision for accepting or rejecting a manuscript. Editor-in-Chief may, if so required, send the manuscript to a new handling editor for a fresh editorial review and to new referees for peer review. Decision of the Editor-in-Chief in such case will be final.
How to make a complaint
The procedure to make a complaint is easy. The complaint can be made by writing an e-mail. Please email to: jal@um.ac.ir All complaints will be acknowledged within three working days.
Plagiarism Policy and Publishing Ethics for the Journal of Agricultural Machinery
The Editorial Team of the Journal of Agricultural Machinery takes the necessary measures to examine the incoming papers on their originality, reliability of contained information and correct use of citations. The Editorial Team of the Journal of Arabic Language & Literature knowledges that plagiarism is unacceptable and therefore establishes the following policies that state-specific actions, if plagiarism is identified in a manuscript submitted for publication in the Journal of Arabic Language & Literature.
Plagiarism in any forms, including quotations or paraphrasing of substantial parts of another’s article (without attribution), “passing off” another’s article as the author’s own or claiming results from research conducted by others, constitutes unethical publishing behavior is unacceptable. The authors must ensure that the submitted manuscript describes completely the original work; free from any aspect of plagiarism. All authors are suggested to use a plagiarism detection software to do the similarity checking. Care be taken to ensure that the work has not been published before in any language; and is not simultaneously submitted to other journals (Multiple submission unacceptable).
If any of the above unethical publishing behavior is detected by the Journal Editorial office or by one of the reviewers, the paper will be immediately rejected and the Editorial Board will communicate with the author(s) to demand an explanation and the amendment of the plagiarized content. If the author(s) does not respond within a reasonable length of time or does not make the necessary adjustments, the editor of the other journals (for Multiple submission) and the author's respective institution are notified and the authors’ name are blacklisted and they will not be able to submit manuscripts Journal of Arabic Language & Literature.
If plagiarism is reported by someone after publication of an article, the case will be investigated by the Journal’s Editorial Board, and if the plagiarized content is noticeable, the article will be withdrawn from the archive of our journal and the author's respective institution are notified and the authors’ name are blacklisted.