Journal Policy
- Open Access Policy
- Publication Policy
- Peer Review Policy
- Copyright and Licensing
- Digital Preservation and Repository Policy
Open Access Policy
The journal promotes the dissemination of the high quality research by providing immediate open access. The open access of the journal means 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.
Publication Policy
All manuscripts are subjected to double-blind review to maintain the high standard quality of the content. Author(s) are responsible to ensure that the submitted manuscript does not contain any identification of the author(s).
The journal does not charge any submission or processing fees for the author(s) to submit and publish their manuscripts in this journal.
The journal accepts manuscripts written in the English language. In order to ensure the readability and the quality of the journal, all manuscripts must go through a language editing and copy editing before publication.
The journal only accepts original manuscripts that have not been previously published nor being considered for publication elsewhere. All manuscripts submitted to the journal are subjected to similarity check procedure to identify any indication of plagiarism.
Peer Review Policy
The journal implements the peer review policy as a means to ensure the quality of the publication in the journal. The peer-review process consists of initial review, double-blind review, and the decision by the editor.
Initial Review: The editor evaluates the submitted manuscript to determine if the content is suitable for the journal. The manuscript is also subjected to a similarity check procedure using Ithenticate to identify any indication of plagiarism. Manuscripts with contents that are not suitable for the journal or with a high percentage of similarity (>15%) will be rejected.
Peer Review: Submitted manuscripts that have passed the initial review are subjected to double-blind review, where both authors and reviewers remain anonymous during the review process. A minimum of two reviewers are assigned to evaluate and provide the recommendation for a manuscript. In assigning the reviewers, the editor is responsible for avoiding conflict of interest during the review process.
Decision: The editor makes the final decision on the acceptability of a manuscript based on the comments and recommendations of the reviewers.
Copyright and Licensing
Author(s) retain copyright of articles published in this journal, with first publication rights granted to Interiority.
All journal content is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License that allows others to use the articles for non-commercial purposes with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Digital Preservation and Repository Policy
All Interiority published articles are deposited to Portico. The preprints, postprints and published versions of all articles are stored in the publisher's archive.
The published version of articles can be accessed publicly immediately after publication. The full texts of articles can be located and deposited in any repository and any website. There is no embargo period for accessing the published full-text article. The copyright of the articles is owned by the author(s) under the license CC-BY-NC.
The pre-print (submitted version) and post-print (accepted version) are not accessible for open access to maintain the accuracy and consistency of articles across repositories. The full text of the published version can be shared, posted, or deposited with acknowledgement to the source through complete citation, including the DOI.