COPYRIGHT & PLAGIARISM

a) Copyright

» The submitted articles checked for plagiarism following prevalent norms , if found exceeds 20% plagiarism level shall be retracted to the author.
» Share the article using free prints with friends or influential people who would like to read it.
» Include the article as Author’s Original Manuscript(AOM)/ Accepted Manuscript(AM)depending on the embargo period in the thesis or dissertation. The version of record cannot be used.
» Present the article at a meeting or conference with printed copies of the article on non commercial basis.
» Post the AOM / AM on a Departmental, Personal website or institutional repositories depending on the embargo period in the thesis.
» However, by misusing part or whole of the article(s) is amounting to copyright violation and commercial use is strictly prohibited under all circumstances. The article(s) sent to the journal should be original, i.e., it should not be violating any copyright rules currently prevalent in the country, and should contain nothing of a libelous or appalling character. Permission from the copyright owner of “Sadvidya”, should be included as necessary for use of any quotes or figures previously published elsewhere. The copyright of all published material, including printed, electronic and other publication formats, will be held by filling up and signing of a copyright declaration form which is mandatory as and when the paper has been accepted for publication.

b) Plagiarism

Plagiarism is treated as a violation of academic integrity and a blatant display of academic dishonesty. Plagiarism is the copying of ideas, text, data and other creative work (e.g. tables, figures and graphs) and presenting it as original research without proper citation.

» The submitted articles checked for plagiarism following prevalent norms if found exceeds 20% plagiarism level shall be retracted to the author.
» Only the articles having medium of publication used as English and Sanskrit shall be subjected to plagiarism check.
» Proper attribution of an idea is required even if a journal operates with double-blind review.
» Present the article at a meeting or conference with printed copies of the article on non commercial basis.
» If authors found guilty of plagiarism, the article with comments will be retracted and if published, the online version of the article in “Sadvidya”, is withdrawn from the host site. “Sadvidya”, publishes an official retraction of paper.