1. General Provisions
The editors of the “Eurasian Scientific and Methodological Journal “East – West” for master and doctoral students” in their work adhere to international standards of ethics of scientific publications, developed and approved by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and takes into account the valuable experience of reputable international journals and publishers.
The editorial staff of the journal does everything possible to comply with the ethical standards adopted by the international scientific community and to prevent any violations of these standards, both in their own work and in relationships.
2. Duties of the Chief Editor
Chief Editor:
- directly manages the journal;
- coordinates the issues of the journal’s publishing activities;
- solves issues related to the artistic and technical design of the journal;
- makes suggestions on improving the journal’s activities, increasing the efficiency of its work;
- organizes professional development of the journal’s staff;
- ensures the creation at workplaces of optimal conditions for high-perfomance, high-quality work;
- controls еhe observance by the staff of the journal of the charter and regulations of the Eurаsian Association of Scientific Journals Ltd, including the Internal Regulations, labor protection and safety rules, fire safety;
- performs other duties stipulated by the job description.
3. Duties of Science Editor
Science Editor:
- directly organizes the activities of the journal;
- coordinates the journal’s publishing activities;
- selects materials for the journal, controls the implementation of the schedule for the receipt of publications;
- considers manuscripts of articles and reviews of them;
- reviews the manuscripts accepted for publication, while providing the authors with the necessary assistance (to improve the structure, the choice of terms, the design of illustrations, etc.), agrees with them on the recommended changes;
- checks the authors’ compliance with reviewers’ comments, the requirements for manuscripts during their revision, the completeness of the submitted material, the correspondence of the manuscripts titles to their content;
- coordinates the work on reviewing articles;
- advises authors of scientific articles, structural divisions for publishing journal;
- participates in solving issues related to the art and technical design of the journal;
- organizes and controls the planning, timely and high-quality preparation of materials for printing;
- organizes and controls the conduct of scientific and educational projects, competitions and other scientific events;
- performs other duties stipulated by the job description.
4. Duties of Technical Secretary
Technical Secretary:
- controls the payment of articles by authors;
- publishes finished issues and individual articles on the journal’s website;
- monitors the information on the site, supplements and updates it;
- performs other duties stipulated by the job description.
5. Duties of Translator
Translator:
- checks the quality of the translation into Kazakh, Russian or English, makes the necessary corrections or returns materials for revision in the journal’s online system;
- observes the principle of confidentiality when working with unpublished materials;
- may not use for personal purposes the submitted and unpublished data without the written consent of the author(s).
6. Duties of Reviewers
Reviewer (internal and external):
- before peer reviewing dives consent or motivated refusal in the online system of the journal;
- observes the principle of confidentiality during reviewing;
- gives an objective assessment of scientific work without any personal criticism of the author, clearly and reasonably expresses his opinion;
- reveals significant similarities or overlaps between the manuscript of the article in question and published works;
- cannot use for personal purposes submitted for consideration and unpublished data without the written consent of the author(s);
- in the event of a conflict of interest, the manuscript cannot be considered.
7. Duties od authors
Author(s):
- submits to the editorial board previously unpublished, executed in strict accordance with the requirements and carefully edited materials of a scientific article;
- is responsible for the accuracy of the facts stated in the article;
- provides, if necessary, additional date on the materials of the article;
- denotes in the article the contribution of others to the research, makes thanks, etc.;
- if any inaccuracies or errors are found, take measures to correct them as soon as possible.