Policy

Plagiarism Policy

 

International Research Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (IRJAHSS) strongly comply with the ethical guidelines for publications and observes Zero Tolerance to plagiarism. International Research Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (IRJAHSS) uses Turnitin software for all research papers submitted to detect possible similarity. If the similarity is more than 19%, the paper is returned to the author(s) immediately. International Research Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (IRJAHSS) follows Higher Education Commission, Pakistan (HEC) and Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines to make the determination whether (or to what extent) plagiarism exists.

If plagiarism or other unethical practices are detected after publishing the paper, the editorial board has the authority to retract the paper as HEC’s plagiarism policy. All authors are responsible for their content individually and collectively. In case of serious plagiarism issues, the editorial board may decide either to consult the institutions of authors or to blacklist them.

Self-plagiarism: verbatim or substantial copying of authors’ own published work (or under consideration for publication at some other outlet) effecting the originality of current submission is also not acceptable in any way. 

Copyright & Privacy Policy

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

All research articles published in International Research Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (IRJAHSS) are fully open access, and freely available to read, download and share.

Authors fully enjoy publication rights. International Research Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (IRJAHSS) does not retain any rights. However, they have to sign a copyright agreement for the fair use of the Creative Common License.

Articles are published under the terms of a Creative Commons license which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Privacy Policy

Privacy Statement

International Research Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (IRJAHSS) follows an open-access publishing policy and all articles are free to access. Any submission to International Research Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (IRJAHSS) must be original, that is, neither published previously nor accepted/under consideration for publication elsewhere. On acceptance of a manuscript, the corresponding author on the behalf of all co-authors will sign and submit a Copyright and Author Consent Form.

The author(s) shall be solely responsible for any information written/informed/reported in the submitted manuscript. It is the author's responsibility to obtain signed permission from the copyright holder to use and reproduce text, illustrations, tables, etc., published previously in other journals, electronic or print media. Articles can be reproduced, distributed, derived and may be used commercially_ provided the original work is properly cited. Author(s) possess the full rights of their published articles.

Disclaimer

International Research Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (IRJAHSS) follows the licensing agreements by Creative Common Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). This indicates that 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, provided that you follow license terms.

 

Archiving Policy

International Research Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (IRJAHSS) allows self-archiving of accepted and published papers through open access policy before and after the publication of a paper. Authors retain the copyright of their scholarly work and can archive pre-print and post-print or publisher’s version/PDF to personal or institutional repositories or libraries anytime without requiring permission from the journal or publisher.
Authors of published articles in International Research Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (IRJAHSS) are entitled to deposit their published papers in institutional and/or centrally organized repositories and can make this publicly available immediately upon acceptance and publication, provided that International Research Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (IRJAHSS) attributes as the original place of publication and that correct citation details are given.
Authors can also make their published article publicly available immediately after publication without requiring any permission to different repositories, libraries, or personal websites if they also deposit the URL of their published article, in addition to the PDF version by correctly citing the journal name with other citation details.

Digital Archiving and Preservation

In order to digitally preserve all published scholarly content International Research Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (IRJAHSS) has occupied its space on archive.org while registration on other archiving platforms i.e; Portico Archive for published articles.
For the preservation of AL-Mahdi Research Journal publishing policies and guidelines submission process is initiated with Sherpa Romeo by submitting registration form with official request and will be available soon after successful registration.

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.