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The Educational Beacon adheres to the highest standard of academic publication ethics. The Peer-review process is an extremely important part of the publication process; it improves the quality of the published article. All concerned parties like the author, editorial board members and publisher ensure the implementation of ethical behaviour to publish a research paper.
The members of Editorial Board work in an unbiased and impartial manner and their decision is final for the concerned paper to be published. The selection process involves thorough validation of the work. According to the policies of the Journal, all our editorial board members are informed about legal requirements, copyright infringement and peer-review and plagiarism policies.
Editors of the Journal ensure there is no consideration about the author's gender, religion, sex, origin, religion, political philosophy and citizenship in evaluating the manuscript.
All publication related correspondence must be sent to Corresponding author by authorized email ID only. Information collected must be treated as confidential.
If any research paper is unpublished, our editorial board members are not allowed to use the material. The reviewers ensure there that there are no conflicts of interest to accept the paper against its selection procedure.
Manuscript received from the author is treated as a highly confidential document, and we never disclose its details to anyone other than the editor and authorized person by the editor.
Reviews are conducted in a way that is not influenced by personal feelings or opinions, i.e., review is objectively carried out. Personal comment or criticism about the author is inappropriate. The views of the Referees should be clearly expressed with sufficient supporting arguments.
The reports given by Authors of original research is expected to be that of an exact work performed with its objective and discussion. The paper must contain proper details and references so that others can get sufficient details and permits others to avoid replicating the work.
Authors must confirm that they have written an article entirely with their own words about their works and it must be appropriately cited or quoted while using other author's work or words. It is unacceptable that, the same article sent for different publications and describing almost the same research in different articles. It is the responsibility of the author to ensure that the paper submitted is free from plagiarism as per the latest UGC guidelines. The proper acknowledgement must be given to others work if cited or used. And if the Author feels, any publication influences his paper; it must be cited properly.
The Educational Beacon, originally a print-only journal since 2012, is now an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI is a public statement of principles relating to open access to the research literature, which was released to the public February 14, 2002) definition of open access.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
The author represents and warrants that the paper is his or her original work and that it either has not been published or submitted for publication in any prior form, or that (1) it has been substantially revised and updated from a prior version or (2) the author has secured the rights to republish the work in The Educational Beacon. The author further undertakes that he or she has the right to grant this copyright to this Journals and that, to the best of the author's knowledge, the paper is neither defamatory of any persons or products nor infringing upon any third party's copyrights. If the paper contains material for which the author does not hold the copyright, the author represents that such material is clearly identified and acknowledge within the text and that such use is either with the permission of the copyright holder.
In the event of any subsequent dispute over the copyrights to material contain in the paper, the author agrees to indemnify and hold harmless The Educational Beacon and its team.
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