Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The Pustabibila : Journal of Library and Information Science invites contributions from practising librarians, Information scientists, educators, administrators, publishers, graduate students and others interested persons from all over the world. The journal is published curently published two times a year, in June, and December.  The electronic version of the journal is available at, http://e-journal.iainsalatiga.ac.id/index.php/pustabiblia.  The scope of publication includes the following topics:

  • Authorship studies
  • Bibliometrics
  • Catalogs, cataloging and classification
  • Citation studies
  • Collection development
  • Communication behaviour
  • Computer applications in information science
  • Computer assisted instructions
  • Cooperation and collaboration
  • Cybermetrics
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Digital libraries
  • E-Commerce
  • Electronic publishing
  • Expert system in IS
  • Indexes, indexing and abstracting
  • Information management
  • Information professionals and librarians
  • Information resources
  • Information retrieval
  • Information services
  • Information Systems and Databases
  • Information use, need and seeking behaviour
  • Informetrics
  • Internet studies
  • Journal studies
  • Knowledge management
  • Legal issues in IS
  • Library buildings
  • Library science
  • Library systems
  • Management of information environments
  • Multimedia information system
  • Performance measurement and evaluation
  • Reference services
  • Research methods
  • Scientometrics
  • User studies

 

Section Policies

Articles

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Peer Review Process

PUSTABIBLIA Journal maintains the standards of peer review while increasing the efficiency of the process.  The article submitted to this journal will be single blind review at least 2 (two) or more expert reviewers. The reviewers give scientific valuable comments improving the contents of the manuscript.

All research articles published in PUSTABIBLIA jounal undergo full peer review, key characteristics of which are listed below:

  • All research articles are reviewed by at least a suitably qualified experts.
  • All publication decisions are made by the journals’ Editors-in-Chief on the basis of the reviews provided
  • Members of the international Editorial Boards lend insight, advice and guidance to the Editors-in-Chief generally and to assist decision making on specific submissions
  • Managing Editors and Editorial Assistants provide the administrative support that allows PUSTABIBLIA Journal to maintain the integrity of peer review while delivering rapid turnaround and maximum efficiency to authors, reviewers and editors alike.
  • PUSTABIBLIA Journal additionally benefit through the manuscript referral process from the high quality peer review conducted by established journals.

Peer review of referred papers:

Editors of PUSTABIBLIA Journal will decide promptly whether to accept, reject, or request revisions of referred papers based on the reviews and editorial insight of the supporting journals. In addition, Editors will have the option of seeking additional reviews when needed. Authors will be advised when Editors decide further review is needed.


Peer review of novel submissions:

Articles submitted directly to PUSTABIBLIA Journal will be fully peer reviewed by at least an appropriately qualified experts in the field selected by the Editor-in-Chief. The Editor-in-Chief or a designated member of the Editorial Board will then decide whether to accept, reject or request revisions based on the reviews and comments received.
Editors will decide whether each submission reports well-conducted research with conclusions supported by the data presented in the paper. Assessments of priority will not be a factor in decision-making, but all papers must make an incremental or novel addition to the literature.

 

 

Publication Frequency

Pustabiblia journal is published every six months once or twice published in a year that is scheduled in June and December

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

About The Journal

PUSTABIBLIA is a journal for library and information science initiated by Library of IAIN Salatiga which is planned to be published periodically every six months or twice a year.  Pustabiblia publish as a container aspiration and distribution of librarians and other scientists creativity in charge of library and information science. The journal appears in two formats, first in print form with P-ISSN 2459-3493 and electronic/online form with e-ISSN 2459-3868. On August 8, 2019, Pustabiblia: Journal of Library and Information Sciece was recognized as a nationally accredited scientific journal (SINTA 4) based on the "Surat Keputusan Direktur Jenderal Penguatan Riset dan Pengembangan Kementerian Riset, Teknologi, dan Pendidikan Tinggi Republik Indonesia Nomor 23/E/Kpt/2019 Tentang Peringkat Akreditasi Jurnal Ilmiah Periode IV Tahun 2019"

 

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Our ethic statements are based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

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Publication decisions
The editor is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published.
The editor may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editor may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Fair play
An editor at any time evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Confidentiality
The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.
 
 
Duties of Reviewers

Contribution to Editorial Decisions
Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

Promptness
Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

Confidentiality
Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

Standards of Objectivity
Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgement of Sources
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest
Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.


Duties of Authors

Reporting standards
Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.

Originality and Plagiarism
The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication
An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.

Acknowledgement of Sources
Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

Authorship of the Paper
Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors.

The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Fundamental errors in published works
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

 

Policy of Screening for Plagiarism

All manuscripts must be free from plagiarism contents. All authors are suggested to use plagiarism detection softaware to do the similarity checking. Editors check the plagiarism detection of articles in this journal by using a Turnitin software.  article can be accepted for maximum 25% similar

 

Abstracting & Indexing

     

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