Ethical Guidelines and Editorial Policy of "Ore and Metals" Publishing house
Basic principles of publication:
• "Ore and Metals" publishing house relies in its activity upon regulations of the Chapter 70 "Author's Right" of the RF Civil Code.
• Only original scientific-technical articles or surveys, being not published anywhere before, are accepted for publication in the editorial staffs of the journals issuing by "Ore and Metals" publishing house.
• The papers having political profile, or the papers including biased or incorrect evaluations of other scientific works and other specialists, are not accepted for publication in the journals issuing by "Ore and Metals" publishing house.
• Duplicate publication, all kinds of copying and reproduction of articles or materials published in the journals issuing by "Ore and Metals" publishing house are permitted only by written consent of the corresponding editorial staff.
Conditions of publications and authorship:
• Authors or author send to the editorial staff the paper for its publication, strictly meeting the requirements of submission of articles (including pictures).
• One of the authors, authorized as representative of other authors of sent paper in relations with the editorial staff, guarantees that the paper has not been published before and is not submitting in any other edition at present time.
• In the case the sent paper has been already published partly in another periodical edition or book, and this periodical edition or book publisher have copyright for this publication, the authors are responsible for timely obtaining of corresponding permission for new publication.
• The sending paper should be accompanied with the official letter from the company where the first or main author is working. This letter should include confirmation of possibility to publish this article in public media without any restrictions.
• The sending paper should be also accompanied with written consent from all authors for its publishing in printed or/and electronic mode and (if required) from corresponding companies, universities and plants that participated anyhow in this work or this work has been executed using their equipment and devices.
• This written consent of the authors of the paper is automatically considered as confirmation of the fact that authors have copyright for publishing material including text of the paper and its pictures, graphs, photos and tables.
• Authors of the paper should supply the editorial staff with their personal and contact details such as company, occupation, phone and e-mail that will be published in the journal.
• Any change to the author's list after starting submission of the paper needs to be approved by a signed letter from every author.
• In the journal publication not more than 5 authors are usually displayed; if more specialists have participated in researches and preparation of the article, part of them (on the decision of authors themselves) can be mentioned in reference on the first page of the article otherwise in acknowledgements in the end of the article.
Peer-Review:
• All sent papers will be peer-reviewed at least by one expert in this scientific field. The name of the expert is not opened to the authors as a rule.
• The review includes analysis of correspondence of the sent paper to the journal requirements on thematics and volume; estimation of scientific and technical innovative features; literacy and perspicuity of description; credibility of experimental data; representativeness of reference list.
• As a result of peer-review (usually during 2-4 weeks), it is concluded about possibility of publishing this paper: it can be accepted as presented or with corrections, it can be returned for principal revision with consequent new submission, or it can be rejected. This conclusion id approved be the editorial staff and/or editorial board of the corresponding journal.
• Based on the results of the peer-review and internal (editorial) review, the authors should be informed about these reviews and terms when revised paper should be sent again to the editorial staff.
• Proofs or make-up of the edited paper are usually sending to the authors or one authorized author for final approval.
• If the authors wish to publish in another edition (e.g. in conference proceedings or university collection of scientific works) any part of the paper already submitted to any journal issuing by "Ore and Metals" publishing house, the authors should obtain written consent of the corresponding editorial staff for this duplicate publication.
Plagiarism:
• In the case of plagiarism comes to light after a paper is published in one of the journals issuing by "Ore and Metals" publishing house, or duplicate publication of the same paper in different journals, the corresponding editorial staff takes the measures for revealing the causes of this violation of the ethical guidelines of publication, informs the authors about this fact and reserves the right not to accept other articles of these authors in the future.
• If plagiarism is revealed during peer-review or editing of the paper, it should be returned to the authors for principal revision or rejected..
• If plagiarism or duplicate publication is found out after publishing the journal with this paper, editorial staff of the corresponding journal reserves the right to publish information about this fact in the nearest journal issue, to mark properly the pagew with this paper in the electronic version of the journal and in the web-site of "Ore and Metals" publishing house, or to exclude this paper from the electronic version at all.
Adjustment of disputes:
• Direct contacts are the main and most preferential method of communication (i.e. for adjustment of disputes) between the editorial staffs and authors in the process of submission and preparing the articles for publication.
