Publishing policy: books

In book publishing, the YSU Publishing House is guided by the belief that the development of every aspect of the field is equally important, starting from book discussion and expert work to proofreading, editorial work, and publication.

The role of the YSU Publishing Council is important to implement the programs in the book-publishing sphere, which allows making deliberative, professional opinion-based decisions, avoiding individual ones. Before making decisions, the professional opinion of each member is taken into account to create an impartial and transparent atmosphere.

The programs of YSU Publishing House in the book publishing sphere are aimed at solving the following issues:

development of publishing work, publication of textbooks and manuals necessary for the educational process, preservation, development, dissemination, and popularization of literary and cultural heritage through literary products, creation of conditions for the reproduction and development of the creative potential of society, book distribution, and creation of favorable conditions for international cooperation in the field.

The prospective goal of the YSU Publishing House is to promote the creation of significant, permanent, and public works, which in turn will contribute to the development of science and civil society.

The YSU Publishing House uploads the published works on its website to satisfy the students, scientists as well as the public’s reading demands, with modern educational and scientific literature, encouraging the publication of professional, critical, and jubilee literature at the same time.

One of the priorities of the YSU Publishing House is also the solution of copyright and related issues in the Armenian book publishing market, which is aimed at moving author-publisher-reader cooperation exclusively into the legal field.

The publishing policy includes general standards for scientific and educational publications, which will help authors to delimit the type of work to be published while clarifying the accepted standard requirements for the corresponding work.

The publishing policy suggests the requirements for the structure of published works, making references, guaranteeing publication, copyright protection, and publishing ethics provisions.

The YSU Publishing House publishes exclusively important, urgent works of applied importance, which are approved by the YSU Publishing Council.

Criteria for being considered an author

• Preparation of the work, independent expression of thought, content editing, contribution to the design of the work, collecting data, completing the thought, analyzing and interpreting,
• Conducting and developing research.

Structural requirements of work

Title. The title should express the essence of the issues discussed in the work. It should be clear and understandable for specialists in other fields, reflect the content, avoiding general and vague expressions. If necessary (depending on the format of the published book), the place and period of the research can be mentioned (EASE (European Association of Science Editors) guide for authors and translators of scientific articles published in English).

Name of author(s). If the work is co-authored, authors should be listed according to their contributions.

Summary (Maximum 250 words). The summary is a brief description of the main points of the study. It should include the research subject, problems, aim, research methods, and results. The summary should answer the following questions:

• What is the book about?
• What is the purpose of the book?
• What are the objectives?
• What are the modernity and scientific novelty of the book?
• What conclusions did the author draw?

Graphs and tables. Graphs and tables should be numbered and presented properly.

Conclusions. Conclusions should be presented in order of importance. It is necessary to compare the results obtained by the author with the results of other studies. If the obtained conclusions contradict the views of other authors, the reasons should be mentioned.

The author should indicate what practical application the paper can have. If the results are inconclusive, it is appropriate to suggest what further research is needed.

Bibliography. Only scientific sources should be given in the bibliography. References to statistical data, documents, reports, and Internet sources should be listed in the footnotes. The items in the bibliography should be numbered and presented in alphabetical order.

It is necessary to present the source data of all information taken from other publications In the bibliography, including all the data necessary to find the given source in the library or on the Internet. For non-English publications, it is necessary to present its original name (if necessary, the transliteration according to the rules of the given language), after which, if possible, the translation of the latter, specifying it in square brackets should be given. Unpublished information is not included in the bibliography. However, if it is necessary to mention, then it should be done in the main text of the work after obtaining the author's permission in advance, and its source should also be explained.

The information about the author(s) is necessary to place on the last page of the book, specifying the name, academic degree, rank, position, place of work, and e-mail address(es).

Procedure for putting references.

• References should be put proportionally, that is, there should be both opinions confirming the author's point of view and differing from it.
• Reference to studies published within the last ten years should be done, necessarily mentioning the work where the research issues were first raised (even if it was formulated more than ten years ago).

It is necessary to ensure that each reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa).

Yerevan State University Publishing House offers journals and authors the following internationally accepted formats of references (Numbered or Name-date style):

Harvard style,

APA style,

MLA Style,

Chicago Style.

Technical requirements.

Works must be sent through the electronic system.

Materials are presented in "MS Word", and "LaTex" electronic formats with Unicode encoding, font size: 12, and line spacing: 1.

It is necessary to send the followings in a separate file:

- Information about the author (in Armenian, Russian, and English):

- Author's name (full),

- Author's position, rank, academic degree,

- The full official name and postal address of the workplace,

- Author's email,

- Documents related to work:

1. A report by the relevant faculty, in which the type of work, the number of pages, the color or non-color printing, the genre, and the number of copies of the work should be indicated,

2. Letter of recommendation from the Academic Council of the relevant structural unit, chair, and faculty.

Full-text versions of books and articles are released to the public domain immediately after publication.

All works are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NC allows users to copy and distribute the work as long as it is not done for commercial purposes. Users have the opportunity to adapt the works to their requirements (reform, transform and build on the material) by making the necessary references. Full license details are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.

Copyright is the author's exclusive right to his/her creation, in this case, a work. Copyright is intended to promote the creation of scientific and educational literature, and to support the creation of conditions for engaging in scientific work, ensuring the legal recognition and protection of the obtained scientific and creative results.

The author of the work is the person who created and wrote the mentioned work. If the work created by the joint efforts of two or more persons constitutes an indivisible whole, the copyright to such work belongs to those persons jointly (co-authors). A separate part of a co-authored work is considered independent if it can be used independently of other parts of the work.

The author undertakes to cooperate with the YSU Publishing House employees, making appropriate changes and corrections in the book or article if necessary. The author must guarantee the authenticity of references and citations. All rights to the electronic and printed materials of the books belong to YSU Publishing House and authors (See Editor and author responsibilities, https://uk.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/editor_guidelines.pdf), ("Copyright and related rights on" Law of the Republic of Armenia, Article 5 ("Publication and publication of creativity"), 22 ("Free use of creativity"), 55 ("Publisher's right"), https://www.arlis.am/DocumentView.aspx?docid=25161).

The author is obliged to confirm that he is familiar with the edited and proofread version of the article providing his signature. The YSU Publishing House is not responsible for inaccuracies or errors in the books published after the signature.

The Publishing House can organize the above-mentioned works also remotely.

To prevent violations in publishing activities (plagiarism, false information, etc.), and to ensure high-quality scientific publications and public recognition of the author's scientific results, each member of the editorial board, publisher, author, reviewer, and institution involved in the publishing process must observe the ethical standards and rules of publishing and the prescribed procedure. Observance of ethical principles by all ensures the authors' intellectual property rights, and improves the quality of the journal, excluding the possible misuse of copyrighted materials in favor of the interests of some individuals (Ethical publishing, https://www.elsevier.com/authors/policies- and-guidelines).

The Publishing House observes the general ethical principles accepted for the publication of scientific materials, guided by the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (See https://bit.ly/3JxRKmG). Violation of copyright and moral norms is not only unacceptable but also hinders the development of scientific knowledge, undermining the reputation of journals and publications, as well as the proper organization of the publishing process. The authors are responsible for the accuracy of the data presented and the results obtained. Submitting false data is a violation of the ethical code.

When presenting work, authors (groups of authors) should be informed that they are responsible for the novelty and reliability of scientific results, which implies the observance of the principles mentioned below.

• Authors must provide reliable results of the work, or study. They must provide only accurate facts and data, provide sufficient information, not use privately obtained information without existing written consent, and not allow falsification of data.
• The submitted work must not have been published before, as well as the work cannot be submitted to different publishing houses unless they have a joint publishing agreement.
• Authors must ensure the independence of the results presented in the paper. Each borrowed passage or quotation must be accompanied by a reference to the author and source. Excessive citations and any form of plagiarism, including unreferenced citations, paraphrasing, or appropriating the results of another person's research, are unethical and unacceptable. The publisher considers citations without references to be plagiarism. Quotations from one's own publications without references are also plagiarism, which should be used as little as possible. Works containing plagiarism will not be accepted for publication.
• Authors should avoid duplicating work. If parts of the work have been previously published, the author must cite the previously published work, indicating the differences.
• Authors should not present a work submitted to another publisher for consideration. It is important to mention the contribution of all the people who in one way or another participated in the creation of the work.
• All those who contributed significantly should be considered co-authors. It is not acceptable to include in the list of authors those persons who did not participate in the creation of the book.
• Authors should respect the work of the Publishing Council and reviewers and, if any, eliminate the mentioned inaccuracies or justify them.
• Authors must present and prepare their works with the standards set by the YSU publishing house.
• If authors discover obvious errors or inaccuracies in the work during the review stage or after publication, they should immediately notify the publisher.
• The author has the option to reclaim his work after submission, as long as it is not edited.
• Content changes and corrections made in the books are agreed upon with the author. If the editors do not agree to the interventions, the parties have the right to refuse publication of the material or to come to an agreement.
• The publisher undertakes not to use the data contained in them and not to provide them to a third party, except for the reviewers, until the publication of the received material.

Duties of the Publishing Council. The Council makes unbiased decisions based solely on the professional level and quality of the materials provided.

Editorial Responsibilities. The editorial team follows the publishing requirements of the journal, guaranteeing the high scientific level of the published works. The editorial team makes unbiased decisions based solely on the professional level and quality of the materials provided.

The Editor-in-Chief evaluates the scholarly content of the work regardless of the author's race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, citizenship, social status, or political preferences.

The Editor-in-Chief decides on the publication of materials according to the following basic criteria:

• the correspondence of the work to the journal,
• the relevance, novelty, and scientific significance of the presented work,
• clarity, reliability of results, and completeness of conclusions.

Conflict of interest. A conflict of interest arises when there is a conflict between a person's interests and the responsibilities of his/her scientific and publishing activities. Objectivity can be influenced by personal, political, financial, scientific, or religious factors. In case of a conflict of interest, the author and the reviewer are obliged to inform the editor-in-chief.