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Journal of Materials Exploration and Findings

Policies

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Philosophy of Journal of Materials Exploration and Findings

For more information, please see Journal of Materials Exploration and Findings Aims and Scope page.


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Who Can Submit?

Anyone may submit an original article to be considered for publication in the Journal of Materials Exploration and Findings (JMEF), provided he or she owns the copyright to the work being submitted or is authorized to do so by the copyright owner or owners. Authors are the initial owners of the copyrights to their works (an exception to this might exist in the non-academic world if the authors have, as a condition of employment, agreed to transfer the copyright to their employer).


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General Submission Rules

Submitted articles cannot have been previously published, nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic). Please note: "publication" in a working-paper series does not constitute prior publication. In addition, by submitting material to the Journal of Materials Exploration and Findings (JMEF), the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that he or she will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at Journal of Materials Exploration and Findings (JMEF). If you have concerns about the submission terms for the Journal of Materials Exploration and Findings (JMEF), please contact the editors.


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Formatting Requirements

Journal of Materials Exploration and Findings (JMEF) has rules governing the formatting of the final submission. See Final Manuscript Preparation Guidelines for details. Although we can provide limited technical support, it is ultimately the responsibility of the author to produce an electronic version of the article as a high-quality PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) file, or a Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, or RTF file that can be converted to a PDF file.

It is understood that the current state of technology of Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) is such that there are no, and can be no, guarantees that documents in PDF will work perfectly with all possible hardware and software configurations that readers may have.


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Rights for Authors and UI Scholars Hub

As further described in our submission agreement (the Submission Agreement), in consideration for publication of the article, the authors assign to UI Scholars Hub all copyright in the article, subject to the expansive personal--use exceptions described below.

Attribution and Usage Policies

Reproduction, posting, transmission, or other distribution or use of the article or any material therein, in any medium as permitted by a personal-use exemption or by written agreement of UI Scholars Hub, requires credit to UI Scholars Hub as copyright holder (e.g., UI Scholars Hub © 2023).

Personal-use Exceptions

The following uses are always permitted by the author(s) and do not require further permission from UI Scholars Hub provided the author does not alter the format or content of the articles, including the copyright notification:

  • Storage and back-up of the article on the author's computer(s) and digital media (e.g., diskettes, back-up servers, Zip disks, etc.), provided that the article stored on these computers and media is not readily accessible by persons other than the author(s);
  • Posting of the article on the author(s) personal website, provided that the website is non-commercial;
  • Posting of the article on a non-commercial course website for a course being taught by the author at the university or college employing the author.

People seeking an exception, or who have questions about use, should contact the editors.

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General Terms and Conditions of Use

Users of the UI Scholars Hub website and/or software agree not to misuse the UI Scholars Hub service or software in any way.

The failure of UI Scholars Hub to exercise or enforce any right or provision in the policies or the Submission Agreement does not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any term of the Submission Agreement or these policies is found to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Submission Agreement and these policies remain in full force and effect. These policies and the Submission Agreement constitute the entire agreement between UI Scholars Hub and the Author(s) regarding the submission of the Article.


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Open Access Policies

On the grounds that making research freely available to the public promotes an increased level of intercultural exchange of information, this publication offers immediate open access to all of its material.

The full texts of these articles are available for free on the public internet, so anyone can read, download, copy, distribute, print, link to them, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other legal purpose without any financial, legal, or technical barriers beyond those that come with getting access to the internet. 

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Publication Policies

Peer Review Policies

JMEF uses double-blind peer review. Neither the reviewers nor the authors know each other's identities and backgrounds. A minimum number of 2 (two) reviewers will be assigned to each manuscript for review. The assigned reviewers come from the reviewer list and editorial board.

JMEF verifies the originality of every manuscript submitted utilizing Ithenticate and Grammarly. The manuscript submitted will go through similarity checking and first screening processes berfore being reviewed by the reviewers. The criteria applied in accepting manuscripts at JMEF are originality, general novelty, clearly written, and scientifically sounds.


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Charges for Article Processing (APCs)

JMEF produces high-quality open access articles that are immediately available to the public and the scientific community. These articles can be freely reused with the necessary attribution. To maintain the journal quality, the APCs will be 500,000 IDR (50 USD if payment made in USD or for outside Indonesia). An additional fee will be charged for manuscripts with more than 10 pages (for research articles) or more than 15 pages (for review articles) at a cost of 50,000 IDR (5 USD) per page. To be noted that the number of the pages is the number of pages when manuscript is accepted. The minor changes of the number of pages does not apply in payment

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Blind Admission

Without regard to the author's color, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, or citizenship, manuscripts will be judged solely on their intellectual value.

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Confidentiality

The corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher are the only people who should be informed about a submitted article by the Editor in Chief and any editorial staff.

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Interest conflicts and disclosure

Anyone who has a glimpse of the article (while handling it) is not permitted to exploit any unpublished materials provided in the text for their own research without the author's prior written approval.

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Copyright and CC Licensing

Journal of Materials Exploration and Findings (JMEF) is fully committed to open access policy, therefore JMEF provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. The readers, libraries or individuals, can read and download any full-text articles for free of charge. Every article published by JMEF adheres to Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licensing terms. Authors retain the right to be credited whereas JMEF obtains the license to publish and distribute the works.

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Editorial and Publishing System

JMEF uses UI Scholar Hub Digital Commons, which is open source journal management and publishing software developed, supported, and freely distributed by the bepress publishing services. The editorial and publishing process of JMEF can be seen here

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