Open Access Policy
In the digital and internet age, everybody looks for material that is widely available without any restrictions or any kind of financial charges. Open Access is a policy, which provides the full rights to the users to access and use the research work free of cost. The journal follows the same policy and provides complete access to its published material. Users are allowed to read, copy, download, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without taking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access. Authors, researchers, and scholars are permitted to scroll through our published research work database and use them for scholarly purposes as a reference.
Copyright and Licence
SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH follows an Open Journal Access policy. Authors retain the copyright of the original work and grant the rights of publication to the publisher with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY License that allows others to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. Authors are permitted to post their work in institutional repositories, social media or other platforms.
As we ethically and legally support only plagiarism-free material and content of the article, we are equally concerned about the quality of the images. We do encourage our authors to use only original images with full copyright holdings. If you do not want to spend money on images, then use royalty-free images. The images should be original, alteration free and free of any kind of software manipulation. All the materials (content, images, data, and tables) used in the article must be plagiarism free and should also be free of any copyright issues. We strictly advise our authors and readers against the use of infringing material of any kind, which may create a legal issue or problem later on in the future.
Copyright issues can only be raised against the use of copyrighted content, images or only if the content is not cited properly. As a publishing house, we have a policy not to use copyrighted content without the owner's permission. We suggest our authors search and download images from the following below-mentioned websites. They have millions of copyright-free images which you can use.
https://search.creativecommons.org/
Data Sharing Policy
As IJELLH is an Open Access Journal this means our published manuscript's data can be used by others until they properly attribute it according to Creative Commons CC BY License. Authors may be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review if required.
Authorship and Contributionship
Authorship provides credit for an individual’s contributions to a study and carries accountability. According to the guidelines for authorship established by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), ‘All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship, and all those who qualify should be listed.’
An author should meet the following criteria
- Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the research work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work.
- Drafting the research work or revising it critically for important intellectual content.
- Final approval of the version to be published.
- Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the research work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
All those designated as authors should meet all four criteria for authorship, and all who meet the four criteria should be identified as authors. It is important to list everyone who made a substantial effort (study conception, design, data acquisition, analysis, drafting revising, and approval of the final version including students or laboratory technicians) in completing the research paper, to avoid Ghost Publication.
Those who do not meet all four criteria should be acknowledged. These authorship criteria are intended to reserve the status of authorship for those who deserve credit and can take responsibility for the work. It is the collective responsibility of the authors, not the journal to which the work is submitted, to determine that all people named as authors meet all four criteria; it is not the role of journal editors to determine who qualifies or does not qualify for authorship or to arbitrate authorship conflicts.
The corresponding author is the one individual who takes primary responsibility for communication with the journal. The corresponding author should be available throughout the submission and peer review process to respond to editorial queries in a timely way and should be available after publication to respond to critiques of the work and cooperate with any requests from the journal for data or additional information should questions about the paper arise after publication.
When two or three authors have written a research paper, all should decide who will be an author before the work is started and confirm who is an author before submitting the manuscript for publication. All members of the group named as authors should meet all four criteria for authorship, including approval of the final manuscript.
