Peer-Reviewed Journal
E-ISSN - 2584-167X
Aims and Scope
உவப்பத் தலைக்கூடி உள்ளப் பிரிதல்
அனைத்தே புலவர் தொழில். (திருக்குறள் – 394)
When people gather, heartily talk with them, then to leave you with a longing heart that
when and how they should meet you hereafter is the symbol of a learned.
Translation - Dr D. Maheswari
Academic Research News (கல்வி ஆராய்ச்சி செய்திகள் Kalvi Ārāycci Ceytikaḷ) E-ISSN - 2584-167X is a peer-reviewed journal that has been started to deliver the academic research news favorable for the academicians and researchers. It creates a platform to learn about the research oriented topics from all over the world to the learners and teaching faculties of India, especially made to the Tamil academicians to foster their academic and ethical publishing methods. It will be helpful academicians to develop their API scores. The journal will publish research articles, review articles, short communications and other related type of academic communications in Tamil and English and other languages around the world. If other languages worldwide three peer reviewers ought to be recommended with a request letter from the author forwarded by the head/supervisor/principal of the institution. It will also publish high quality peer-reviewed conference proceedings and supplements on higher education and research, ethical publishing methods and directories of journlas and articles.
Academic Research News
Peer-Reviewed Journal
Editorial Board
Mrs. A. Gomathi, (Editor-in-Chief)
Assistant Professor of Commerce (S/F),
Kamaraj College.
Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, India.
Email: editorarn@pandianeducationaltrust.com
Profile: https://kamarajcollege.ac.in/commerce/
Dr. M. Annalakshmi,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics,
VHNSN College,
Virudhunagar - 626001,
Tamil Nadu, India.
Email: annalakshmi@vhnsnc.edu.in
Profile: https://www.vhnsnc.edu.in/dl.php?fid=AMAT7&id=15
Mrs T. Jeyappradha,
Assistant Professor of Management,
NMSSVN College,
Nagamalai, Madurai. Tamil Nadu, India.
Email: jeyappradha@nmssvnc.edu.in
Profile: https://nmssvnc.irins.org/profile/251299
Dr. G. Rajesh Kumar,
Assistant Professor,
Department of English,
Directorate of Distance Education,
Madurai Kamaraj University,
Madurai.
Email: drrajeshmkudde@mkuniversity.ac.in
Profile Page: https://mkuniversity.ac.in/dde/faculty.php
Dr. D. Maheswari, (Editor-in-Chief - IJTLLS)
The President,
Pandian Educational Trust, Virudhunagar.
Tamil Nadu, India.
Email: president@pandianeducationaltrust.com
Profile: http://pandianeducationaltrust.com/trustees.html
Mrs S. Prema
Assistant Professor of Tamil,
PSGR Krishnammal College for Women,
Coimbatore - 641004,
Tamil Nadu, India.
Email: prema@psgrkcw.ac.in
Profile: https://psgrkcw.irins.org/profile/135952
Copyright © 2023 – Authors’ Academic Research News is an Open Access Journal and the Pdf copy can be reused within the terms of the CC BY license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Think before you print so that you can save trees and environment.
Call for
Academic Research News (கல்வி ஆராய்ச்சி செய்திகள் Kalvi Ārāycci Ceytikaḷ) publishes articles in bi-yearly schedule (June and December). Research articles should be sent to editorarn@pandianeducationaltrust.com . Research articles are published online bi-yearly for the benefit of the green environment. Researchers, professors, and freelance writers are welcome to submit their articles, short communications and reviews.
Publication Frequency:
The journal was initiated from 2023 and the articles are published bi-yearly with prompt peer-review and ethical publishing methods. It will publish bi-yearly on the months June and December.
Manuscript Guidelines and Policies
Size of the research article:
The research paper should be typed in Arial Unicode (Tamil), Times New Roman (English) font on A4 paper 12 size, 1.5 spacing and 2000 - 4000 words. Footnotes, verse number, page number and subtitle list (in Tamil and English) should be included. (for more details see Publication ethics and malpractice statement below)
Title page:
The title page should contain the name, abbreviated title, address, and email address.
Abstract:
Provide an English Abstract of 150 - 200 words. Keywords: 4 - 6.
Article structure:
Research articles should be of novelty, originality and quality. Use current APA for formatting.
Quotations:
Be sure to quotations are included in the reference list with proper ethical methods.
Reference List:
Authors should follow alphabetical order of their used books, journals, research articles, dissertations and web data in concordance to the research ethics.
Publication:
Academic Research News (கல்வி ஆராய்ச்சி செய்திகள் Kalvi Ārāycci Ceytikaḷ) E-ISSN - 2584-167X publishes academic articles bi-yearly on the months June and December. The articles should be sent to editorarn@pandianeducationaltrust.com . Research articles are published online for the benefit of the green environment. Only Full Issue as e-pdf and e-certificate will be provided to the author by mail. For subscription, One Complimentary Copy (print) will be sent for documentation (for institutions join in subscription scheme 3000 INR for two years). Conference Proceedings will also be published with a proper peer-review and after making it fit for journal publication
Release / Peer-review Policy:
Research articles will be published online only. Research articles are subjected to double blind peer-review method. PDF documents will be published on the Internet only after the reviewed articles have been evaluated for originality, novelty and other ethical principles in research and publishing methods.
Anti-plagiarism:
The journal views plagiarism as an injustice to a scholar's intellectual knowledge. Proper attribution is expected. If there is plagiarism in the work of the researchers, the editorial board will reject the article. If any problems arise after publication, the article will be retracted with proper notice to the institution of the author.
Open access Policy:
Our Open access Policy allows our readers to honestly search, read, download, copy, and link articles.
License:
Our journal adopts CC BY Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License http://Creativecommons.org//license/by/4.0/ benefit. It allows real works to be used, distributed and redesigned with appropriate attribution methods. Every work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Archival: The journal uses Internet Archive for long term preservation.
Copyright:
The copyright of the article belongs to the author.
Article processing charges:
The fee for reviewing and publishing articles (APC) is fixed 1500 INR in Indian value. Pay after the consent letter from the journal for publishing the articles along with the copyright form.
Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement
Academic Research News
(கல்வி ஆராய்ச்சி செய்திகள் Kalvi Ārāycci Ceytikaḷ)
Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement
Academic Research News (கல்வி ஆராய்ச்சி செய்திகள் Kalvi Ārāycci Ceytikaḷ) (E-ISSN - 2584-167X) is of ‘bi-yearly’ publication frequency and a peer-reviewed journal that publish scholarly articles from educators, researchers and freelancers in the field of Academic Research News. The journal is committed to support ethical research practices. The editors, authors, reviewers, publication staff, and the publisher abide to the guidelines as evinced by the Code of Conduct https://publicationethics.org/core-practices (COPE) and aims to disseminate ethical guidelines in research.
Publication Frequency
The journal was initiated from June 2023 and the articles are published bi-yearly with prompt peer-review and ethical publishing methods. It will publish quality based scholarly articles to foster academic research, sharing academic news and other scholarly communications.
Publication Process
All submissions are viable for double-blind peer-review to two academicians’ relevant expertise. Peer reviewers will advise the editors whether the article be published or if any constructive suggestions to modify the article. In case, a third reviewer may be also employed and his/her decision is final. The editor connects the author with their decision and proper modifications needed in the article for publication. Manuscripts should follow current APA style for English or else it will be declined. Misleading and inaccurate data, opinions, statements and plagiarism issues are the sole responsibility of the author concerned. The editorial team take no responsibility or liability under such consequences. PDF of the Issue and Publication E-Certificate will be provided.
Archival: The journal uses Internet Archive for long term preservation.
Duties of Editors
Decision on the Publication of Articles
The editors are responsible to decide the articles to be published in the journal. The editor-in-chief is steered by the policies of the journal’s editorial board. The editor can ignore any material that did not follow the legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism in the manuscript.
Fair Play
The manuscripts must be evaluated due to the intellectual merit without any kind of discrimination from the authors.Special issues are also handled in the identical way as regular submissions. Articles are considered and accepted only for their academic merit without any type of commercial influence.
Confidentiality to be Followed
The editors must not reveal any information about submitted manuscripts other than the corresponding author, reviewers and other editorial advisers to keep the review unbiased.
Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
Unpublished materials of the submitted manuscripts in this journal must not be used by anyone who has access without proper written consent of the author. If a member on the editorial board or an editorial staff of the journal contributes a submitted manuscript, he/she should not perform any reviewing tasks related to the manuscript and ought to declare conflicts of interest.
Plagiarism Check
Editorial staff must check the originality and similarity of all the submitted articles by Plagiarism X for English and Plagiarisma for Tamil written articles. Plagiarised Manuscripts will incur plagiarism sanctions.
Duties of Reviewers
Editorial Decision Contribution
Reviewers assist the chief editor and other editorial board members in making editorial decisions in selecting the article while peer review.
Promptness
Reviewers must be prompt while the review process. If anyone feels incompetent to review or unable to provide a punctual review, he/she should inform the editor and excuse from the review process.
Confidentiality to be Followed
The manuscripts received for review must be kept confidential. Reviewers must not discuss about it except as authorized by the editors while review process. Information or scholarly ideas obtained through peer review ought to be kept confidential and not be used for personal advantage or to his/her profession.
Standards of Objectivity
Reviews should be accomplished without bias. No personal criticism on the author and should express views on the manuscript clearly with supporting arguments to modify the article.
Acknowledgement of Sources
Reviewers have the responsibility to identify pertinent published work that has not been properly cited by the authors and call the editor's attention for substantial similarity or any overlap between the reviewing manuscript and to any other published paper that contains academic personal knowledge.
Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
Reviewers must be conscious of potential conflicts of interest. In case they have to decline reviewing manuscripts that they have conflicts of interest ensuing from monetary, competitive, collaborative, or any other relationships with the authors.
Duties of Authors
The Authors are responsible for submitting manuscripts that follow the guidelines of Academic Research News (கல்வி ஆராய்ச்சி செய்திகள் Kalvi Ārāycci Ceytikaḷ). Authors are insisted to follow the details stated below:
Originality of Articles
Articles should be original and not under the consideration of any other publication simultaneously. An author should not scrounge significantly from previous works and never submit manuscripts as essentially in more than one journal. It should be in Arial Unicode for Tamil and Times New Roman for English written articles. An abstract of 200-250 words should accompany 5-6 keywords. The body of the paper ought to be in 2000-4000 words. References must be given in proper form and should be in alphabetical order. The paper in Tamil should accompany with the English Title, English abstract, English keywords and references in English (in the order of Tamil reference). All of these should be in a separate page of the document. Articles to be sent: editorarn@pandianeducationaltrust.com
Data Access and Retention Policy
Authors should be ready to provide the raw data for editorial review for a reasonable time after publication.
Acknowledgement of Sources
Authors’ shall give proper acknowledgment to the work of others. They should cite publications that have major influential in the current work. Direct quotes must be suitably acknowledged and cited in the references at the end of the article under APA style for English. The article should enclose adequate detail and references to permit others to find published sources. Inaccurate or Fraudulent statements constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable in the initial selection process.
Authorship
Authorship should be limited to the one who have significantly contributed for the beginning, design, finishing, or interpretation of the study. Those who have made significant secondary contributions should be listed as co-authors. If any others who have participated in some substantive aspects, they should be acknowledged or enlisted as contributors.
Corresponding Author
The authors are responsible to upload the revised manuscript within the assigned time. The corresponding author is accountable to get message from the journal for publication. The corresponding author should ensure all appropriate co-authors in the paper. The corresponding author shall ensure that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the research paper and have agreed to the revised submission ensuing to publication.
Acknowledgment of Funding Sources
The funding sources for the research article should be acknowledged properly at the end of the article. Authors must disclose any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest in their manuscript.
Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
Usually, conflict of interest exists when an author’s private interests influence the research’s objectivity. It is the sole responsibility of the author to verify if any of the co-authors hold any conflict of interest and to notify the editor-in-chief in advance. All sources of funding that is likely considered to affect the interpretation of the findings should be declared in the ‘acknowledgement’ section of the manuscript.
Basic Errors in Published Works
If an author discovers significant error or inaccuracy in the published work, it is the author’s duty to notify the journal editor and assist the editor to retract or correct the paper to make it academically worthy.
Dealing with Unethical Behaviour and Academic Integrity
Identification of Unethical Behaviour
Misconduct and unethical behavior may be brought to the attention of the editor or publisher by anyone. The person who informs should provide sufficient information and evidence to pursue up with an investigation.
Investigation
The Editorial Board of Academic Research News (கல்வி ஆராய்ச்சி செய்திகள் Kalvi Ārāycci Ceytikaḷ) will conduct a thorough case review with objectives in a professional manner to protect privacy and safety of the reporter. Evidence should be gathered and kept in a judicious manner to avoid the spread of allegations beyond those who need to know about the matter.
Outcomes
For minor misconduct, the journal will inform the author or reviewer where there appears to be a misunderstanding statement for acceptable standards. In case of serious misconduct, the editors will take the decision to get the article or to employ them further with consultation to a limited number of experts and board. Academic Research News (கல்வி ஆராய்ச்சி செய்திகள் Kalvi Ārāycci Ceytikaḷ) panel may send a formal letter to the head of the author or reviewer's department or the funding agency if the submitted or published manuscript is overtly plagiarized or fabricated. The journal has the right to impose an embargo period for the article or to reject future manuscript submission by the same author or authors and ask compensation for it. The Academic Research News (கல்வி ஆராய்ச்சி செய்திகள் Kalvi Ārāycci Ceytikaḷ) board may report the case to a professional body or organization or higher authority to take investigation and further action to uphold academic integrity.
PUBLISHER:
Maheswari Darmalingam
Pandian Educational Trust (TN-32-0003213),
Maheswari Publishers, (The publishing unit of PANDIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST- TN-32-0003213)
3/350, Veterinary Hospital Back Side,
Virudhunagar- 626001, Tamil Nadu, India.
Mobile: +91 8526769556,
E-mail: president@pandianeducationaltrust.com
Title Verso
Journal title : Academic Research News
Abbreviated key-title :
E- ISSN Number : 2584-167X
Editor-in-Chief : Mrs. A. Gomathi
Publication frequency: Bi-Annual (Calendar Cycle - June and December)
Volume/Issue Type : Volume 1 Issue 1
Place of Publication : Virudhunagar
Start of Publication : June 2023
Paper Size (Format) : Digital A4 Size
Medium of Publication: E-version
Subject : Multidisciplinary Subjects
Language : Multiple Languages (Tamil, English)
Access Type (URL or DOI): Gold OA, Online, Indexed long time in Internet Archive
Subscription Type : APC
Publisher : Maheswari Publishers, (The publishing unit of PANDIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST- TN-32-0003213)
Publisher Website : https://pandianeducationaltrust.com/
Journal Site : https://pandianeducationaltrust.com/academic-research-news.html
Special Thanks
We dedicate our thanks to the former editors and other members, reviewers for their voluntairy service.
Former Editor-in-Chief
Dr. D. Maheswari (2023)