MSPL Publishing Policies


Authorship
The person submitting the paper should carefully check that all those who have contributed to the paper are recognized as contributing authors. The list of authors should include all individuals who can legally claim authorship. Obtaining funding, collecting data, or providing general supervision to the research team does not constitute authorship.

Acknowledgements
Any contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an acknowledgements section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical assistance, or a department chair who provided only general support.

Declaration of Conflict of Interest
Our journals encourage authors to include a declaration of any conflicts of interest and recommend that you read the best practice guidelines on the Instructions for Authors of MSPL Journals.

Author Publication Agreement
MSPL requires authors to sign a Journal Contributor's Publishing Agreement prior to publication. The MSPL Journals Contributor's Publishing Agreement is an exclusive license agreement, meaning that the author retains copyright in the work, but grants MSPL the sole and exclusive right and license to publish for the full legal term of copyright.

Permissions
Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders to reproduce illustrations, tables, figures, or lengthy quotations that have been published elsewhere. For further information, including guidance on fair dealing for criticism and review, please see our Frequently Asked Questions on the Instructions for Authors of MSPL Journals.

Archiving Policy for Digital Preservation

Digital Intellectual Property: MSPL is committed to provide access to digital materials while respecting and upholding the intellectual property rights of authors and obtaining prior consent. 

Access: Digital preservation activities are performed with the primary goal of long-term access to digital scholarly articles. 

Authenticity: It ensures that the data remains unaltered and the original data is preserved.al preservation can be seen as the set of processes and activities that ensure information which now exists in digital formats is backed up and distributed to guarantee continued access for the long term. The digital content of the journal is extremely valuable and measures are in place to ensure both its current accessibility and long-term preservation. The preservation policy includes the following measures:

Website Archiving: All of our electronic content (website, manuscripts, etc.) is stored on two different sources. Content on one server is online and accessible to the readers. The copy of the same content is kept as a backup on the other source. In case of failure of the server, the other source can be made online and website expected to be accessible within less than 24-36 hours.

Abstracting/Indexing Services: Articles from our journals are searchable in more than nine databases or scholarly search engines. In addition, our journal archives electronic copies of articles. Therefore, it is not only possible to obtain copies of our journal's articles from scholarly resource platforms as an alternative to our journal's own system. In addition, we maintain complete paper data ourselves, so that in the event of a disaster, we can provide complete articles data to recover all of the journal's contents.

Self-archiving: MSPL will archive the final published version of its articles in institutional repositories immediately after publishing. If the MSPL journals are not updated, all published articles will remain on the journal's website for 10 years after announcement.