Journal Publication Policy

The transmission of knowledge and conduct of scholarly activities are vital functions of the MGMM College. They can be carried out effectively only if scholars/students are guaranteed certain freedom  and accept corresponding responsibilities. Keeping this in view, MGMM has started a publication of Research Papers, Research Articles, Research Reviews and Recent Trends in Technology. The Journal published by MGMM College is  yearly. The purpose the journal is to promote various academicians, scholars, researchers  and students about the present research issues and facts.

1. Financial Support
   The College bears all the expenses of the journal from acceptance to publications of the Author’s paper. The college does not charge authors a publication fee for the articles they publish

2. Nomination/Appointment of Editors
   The editors are nominated by the Publication Committee and appointed by the Board of the College. The Publication Committee encourages a wide breadth of qualified scholars to apply and seeks the advice of college’s intellectual leaders in the recruitment process in an effort to appoint editors who reflect the diversity of the Association in interest, gender, and ethnicity.

3. Publication Decisions
   The final acceptance or rejection of individual manuscripts and the timing of their publication is at the sole discretion of the editor. Input from members of the Editorial Board is advised and editors may make decisions consistent with that advice. Editors may not place final decisions regarding acceptance or rejection.It is in the hands  of individual board members, associate editors, or any other group.

4. Publication Design
   Editors may not change the graphic layout or structural features of journals without the approval of the Publication Committee. Requests for changes in cover color/art, graphic layout, content headings, type size/format, or other production characteristics must be submitted to, and approved by, the Publications Committee before any changes can be implemented by Board of Studies members.

5. Publication Style
   The College Board has directed that the editorial style of all scholarly publications be governed by the latest edition of the Publication Guidelines assigned by the journal style. It is the responsibility of the editorial office to see that each manuscript follows the defined style. Manuscripts will not be rejected solely based on issues of style, but will need to adhere to the style guidelines before final publication.

6. Ethical Standards
   All manuscripts submitted to MGMM publications must be original work that
   • Credit all authors

   • Acknowledge sources and supporting material

   • Identify previous publication of the manuscript in an earlier form.

The place, time, and form of the previous publication, and whether the present material duplicates or is substantially different than the earlier presentation, must be made explicit in a cover letter accompanying the manuscript submission. Mata Gujri Multidisciplinary Research Journal does not publish articles that have been previously published in substantially the same form. Any manuscript submitted to MGMM publication must not be simultaneously considered by another publication. If extraordinary circumstances call for simultaneous submission, the Journal editor should be informed by the author(s). Decisions regarding the originality of and/or appropriateness of a submitted manuscript will be rendered by the editor. Evidence of alleged misconduct or ethical violations will be reported to the Publications Committee.

1. Open-access Policy

The copy of journal remains available at college library, concerned department and office. Anyone can access the journal from the college without paying any charge. The title of papers with the Volume and Issue of the journal is uploaded on the college website. The researcher can access the college website and can send the request to the editorial board to send the copy of paper without any charge.

1. Submission Policy
   Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, when  its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the authorities responsible where the work was carried out. The publisher and journals have a zero-tolerance plagiarism policy. We check the issue using two methods: a plagiarism prevention tool (Plagiarism Detector Software) and a reviewer check.

2. Responsibilities of the Editorial Office:
   
   
   • To bear ultimate responsibility for adherence to journal publishing style, academic validity, and scientific accuracy of materials.

   • To formulate and articulate a direction for the journal during the term of the editorship that is in keeping with the mission established by the Editorial Board and Publications Committee.

   • To determine content of the journal through selection and active solicitation of scholarly articles that serve to fulfil that mission.

   • To appoint a volunteer editorial staff for editorial continuity.

   • To establish an editorial board and procedures for consistent peer review of all manuscripts and to handle the peer review process through all revisions.

   • To negotiate institutional support for establishing an onsite editorial office with support staff for handling manuscripts and relevant correspondence.

   • To ensure that tone and content of articles meet appropriate academic standards and to uphold the use of journal publication style.

   • To communicate with authors on all issues of content, accuracy, and relevance, and resolve any major substance issues with authors.

   • To review articles for language that could be legally problematic, misleading, or inflammatory.

   • To oversee the work of review editors, commentary editors, etc., to ensure that they adhere to these same guidelines.

   • To review articles for language or data that could be legally problematic due to concerns over libel, plagiarism, copyright infringement, or human subject violations.

3. Responsibilities of the Production Office:
   
   
   • To coordinate with the production office on issues of mutual relevance.

   • To copyedit manuscripts for grammar and typographical accuracy.

   • To format articles into that journal’s style.

   • To send proofs of each article to first authors with corrections made and queries noted— offprint order forms are also sent at this time.

   • To make authors’ corrections and send corrected proofs to the editorial office.

   • To make editorial-office corrections and send proofs to publisher for approval.

   • To make final corrections, if any, and prepare PDFs in dictated style for printer.

   • To review articles for language or data that could be legally problematic due to concerns over libel, plagiarism, copyright infringement, human subject violations; to first express these concerns to the journal’s editor; if such an impasse is reached that articles cannot be rewritten or edited to address possible legal concerns, to work within ICA’s procedures for adjudication of such matters.

4. Plagiarism
   The Publication Committee shall first contact the author(s) in writing and ask for a response to the charge, including detail of the relative contribution of multiple authors to any specific problematic sections of the article. Based on the response, the Publication Committee may obtain additional information, which may include a review of the manuscript in question by experts to help determine the level of plagiarism. Based on these deliberations, the Publication Committee shall determine whether the charge is to be upheld and, if so, the sanction which is to be enforced against the authors.