Code of Ethics

“Wieki Stare I Nowe” follows the principles of publication ethics and publication malpractice statement mainly based on the Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, Committee on Publication Ethics, 2011 (see PDF). 

Responsibilities of the Editor

1. The editor holds responsibility for the decision as to which of the papers submitted to the journal will be published.
2. All the articles that appear in the pages of “Wieki Stare I Nowe” are peer-reviewed (double-blind review process).
3. The sole criteria for the selection of the text shall include:
   — the submission’s relevance to the field of study and to the scope of the journal
   — the submission's originality
   — the quality of the submission's language
   — the clarity of the argument
   — observance of all legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism.

Confidentiality
Until the moment of the admission of the article for publication, the editor and any editorial team shall not disclose any information about the submitted manuscript to any third party other than:

— corresponding Author,

— Peer Review team members,

— members of the editorial team,

— the publisher, copyeditors, proofreaders, typesetters involved in the production of the journal as appropriate.

Reviewers’s responsibilities

1. The peer referee shall disclose to the Editor any conflict of interest. The peer referee shall decline the reference upon the discovery of any conflict of interest and shall inform the Editor about such instances.
2. The peer referee shall treat received documents as confidential.
3. The peer referee shall be impartial in their evaluation of the submission.
4. The peer referee shall provide the Editors with information that will allow them to make an informed decision concerning the publication of the material.
5. The peer referee shall express his or her views clearly and unambiguously.
6. The peer referee shall provide the Author with relevant information allowing him or her to revise her contribution to meet the highest standards of academic quality or to improve their writing in the future.
7. The peer referee shall deliver his or her review promptly or shall notify the Editor about any circumstances that prevent him or her from the timely delivery of the review.
8. The referee is obliged to identify insufficient identification of sources or potential plagiarism, of which cases the referee shall notify the Editor.

Author's Responsibilities and Obligations

1. Authors shall present original research.
2. Authors shall not submit material published previously elsewhere.
3. Authors shall never submit plagiarized work, be it a plagiarism based on uncredited translation, uncredited citation or reference to someone else's unpublished work, or ideas knowingly harvested from others, including students, whose unpublished work remains theirs. Submitting Authors agree that plagiarism is not only a crime, but also the most degrading act in the space of academia and therefore shall take special care that no part of their work should leave any doubt in terms of academic honesty.
4. Authors shall properly cite their sources, credit their mentors and other authors, and document their data with reliable and verifiable source references,
5. Authors shall provide full and honest list of references, crediting all other researchers and other authors whose work has made the submission possible.
6. Authors shall present reliable and intersubjectively verifiable data.
7. Authors shall never submit contributions including fradulent data or misrepresented statements.
8. Authors shall offer an impartial, methodologically sound, discussion of the data.
9. Submitting material to „Wieki Stare i Nowe”, Authors retain the rights to the published material. Author accepts that if accepted, their contribution will be distributed in the Open Access formula under the provisions of the license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en