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PUBLICATION POLICY

Articles submitted to DiHA: Journal of Interdisciplinary Legal Studies must not have been published elsewhere and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors will be required to provide an additional commitment statement regarding this matter.

Articles that have undergone initial evaluation by the Editorial Board and are found to be inconsistent with these publication principles will be returned to the authors for correction according to these rules before being sent to reviewers. Unusual grammatical errors, the lack of necessary domestic and foreign doctrine, failure to adhere to scientific criteria and academic ethical principles, and the lack of contemporary relevance or significance of the article's topic in theory and/or practice are sufficient grounds for rejection by the Editorial Board.

Before being sent to reviewers, articles are subjected to plagiarism checks using special computer programs. If the similarity rate exceeds 20%, it is sufficient for the rejection of the article.

Articles deemed appropriate in the initial evaluation are sent to reviewers with author names removed from the text. Authors are not informed of which reviewers the article is sent to. Based on the reports received from reviewer, decisions are made regarding the publication, revision, or rejection of the article. There is no minimum or maximum duration for the reviewer stage. Monitoring this process is solely the responsibility and authority of the Editor in Chief, and direct or indirect intervention by the authors at this stage is considered an ethical violation.

The final authority and responsibility for whether the article/work will ultimately be published and, if so, in which issue of DiHA it will appear, lie with the Editor in Chief. The presence of a single negative reviewer report could be sufficient to prevent the publication of the article.

The completion of the reviewing stage does not grant authors the authority to request a special/official document indicating that the article will be published. Authors are supposed to acknowledge this circumstance.

The Editorial Board determines the articles to be included in an issue of the journal by considering criteria such as maintaining diversity of fields, submission dates to DiHA and completion dates of the reviewing stage, the actuality of the article subject, and the geographical distribution of authors.

Authors are deemed to have transferred their copyright to DiHA without requesting any fee.

OPEN ACCESS STATEMENT

DiHA: Journal of Interdisciplinary Legal Studies is an open access journal. Anyone can read articles online for free. Open access is an approach that facilitates collaboration and communication between different disciplines. It makes scientific research more transparent and accessible. In academic research in particular, this approach encourages interdisciplinary collaboration and increases the exchange of information. In this respect, open access is in line with the main purpose of the journal.

The articles in DiHA are open access articles licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license.

The Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license allows the sharing, copying, reproduction, and adaptation (remixing, transforming, and building upon the original work in any medium or format) of the work for non-commercial purposes, with appropriate attribution, provided the license terms are followed.

As long as the licence conditions are met, the licensee may not revoke these rights.

COPYRIGHTS POLICY

Authors agree that, upon publication, their work in DiHA: Journal of Interdisciplinary Legal Studies will be distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license.

The author(s):

a) Confirm that the submitted article is their original work and does not involve plagiarism,
b) Confirm that all authors have individually participated in this work and take responsibility for its content,
c) Confirm that all authors have seen and approved the final version of the manuscript,
d) Confirm that the article has not been published elsewhere or submitted for publication elsewhere,
e) Affirm that the text, figures, and materials used in the article do not infringe upon any third-party copyrights.

  • The copyright of the published article remains with the author(s).

  • Authors grant the journal the non-exclusive right to publish the article and identify the journal as the original publisher.

  • Authors allow others to share the work for non-commercial purposes, provided that proper attribution is given and no modifications or derivatives are made.

  • Nothing in this license restricts or impairs the author’s moral or ownership rights over their work.

All commercial rights related to the article belong to the author(s).

Works published in this journal are licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
This license allows others to share, copy, and redistribute the material in any medium or format for non-commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given and no modifications or derivatives are made.

License link: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

FEE POLICY

DiHA: Journal of Interdisciplinary Legal Studies is an open-access journal.
The journal does not charge any fees at any stage of the publication process, including submission, review, publication, or access.
Authors are deemed to have transferred the copyright of their published works to DiHA without any financial expectation or fee.

ARCHIVING POLICY

DiHA: Journal of Interdisciplinary Legal Studies allows authors to deposit any version of their work — including the published PDF — in institutional or subject repositories of their choice, as well as on personal websites.
Authors are encouraged to provide a proper citation and a link to the original publication on the DiHA website when sharing their work.
This policy is recorded under the Journal Policies section on the DiHA website.