About the Journal

PERIODICITY OF PUBLICATION

OPEN ACCESS POLICY

HISTORY OF THE JOURNAL

PEER REVIEW PROCESS

PAYMENT FOR PUBLICATION

PLAGIARISM CHECK

JOURNAL'S OPEN ACCESS DECLARATION

 

PERIODICITY OF PUBLICATION
The journal is published every six months.

OPEN ACCESS POLICY
This electronic journal supports the policy of open access to published content, supporting the principles of the free dissemination of scientific information and the global exchange of knowledge for the sake of universal social progress.

HISTORY OF THE JOURNAL
The journal was founded in 2015 (protocol of the meeting of the Academic Council of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University No. 12 dated November 30, 2015).

The founder: - V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University .

The major faculty: - School of Computer Science.

The founding department: - Department of security of information systems and technologies.

Peer Review Process

1. All the papers submitted to the editorial board of the Journal and corresponding to its thematic and requirements are reviewed.

2. A paper review is realised in a form of double-blind peer review (neither author nor reviewer knows about each other).

3. The paper is registered at the editor’s of the Journal with noting of the date of receipt, the title, full name of the author(s) and the place of work.

4. The executive secretary reports to the authors that the paper was received within 7 days.

5. Editor-in-chief and his deputies determine the relevance of the paper to the journal’s specialization and to the requirements for the design, which are posted on the website of the journal (https://periodicals.karazin.ua/cscs) In case of inadequacy the paper is not allowed for further consideration.

6. The editor-in-chief sends the article for review to specialists who have the closest scientific specialization to the topic of the article. All journal articles are reviewed by at least two reviewers.

7. The review period lasts from 4 to 8 weeks from the date of receipt.

8. The reviewer decides on the expediency of the publication, the necessity to revise the manuscript, or the inexpediency of publication.

9. The reviewers are reported that the manuscripts sent to them are privately owned by the authors and relate to non-disclosure information. Reviewers are prohibited to make copies of the papers for their own needs.

10. If necessary, the paper is sent to the author with a proposal to take into account the comments of the reviewer. In case of rejection, the editorship sends the author a motivated refusal.

11. Manuscripts, revised by the author, are repeatedly sent to the same reviewer who made critical remarks, or to another one at the discretion of the editor-in-chief.

12. Manuscripts, the authors of which have not removed the constructive comments of the reviewer or have not proposed well-reasoned refutation, are not accepted for publication.

13. The final decision about the possibility and expediency of publication is taken by the editorial board as a whole.

14. According to the statute about the system of prevention and detection of academic plagiarism in scientific and educational work of the employees and students of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, before the submission of the Journal for consideration by the academic council of the department, the executive secretary checks the papers adopted for publication for academic plagiarism. The check is carried out using the Anti-Plagiarism Internet System Strikeplagiarism.com or Unicheck.com.

 

PAYMENT FOR PUBLICATION

There is no fee for submitting manuscript/article materials. There is also no payment for design and formatting of article materials.

 

Plagiarism check

We check all submitted manuscripts by Unicheck.com software before review process. If plagiarism is detected (the percentage of the borrowed text exceeds 5%), the submitted manuscript is rejected.

 

JOURNAL'S OPEN ACCESS DECLARATION

Declaration of Open Access of the electronic journal "COMPUTER SCIENCES AND CYBER SECURITY" (hereinafter CS&CS). The editors of the publication adhere to the policy of "open access" to published materials.

By "open access" (according to the Budapest "Open Access" initiative), the editors of the journal mean the following:

- free access, through the public Internet, to all materials published in our magazine;

- the right of every Internet user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to full-text articles;

- search by indexing robots, enter them as data into the software or use them for other legal purposes in the absence of any financial, legal and technical obstacles (except those that regulate access to the Internet).

More details about the Budapest Open Access Initiative should be found at the link: https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai-10-translations/.

The ONLY RESTRICTION on reproduction and distribution, as well as the ONLY CONDITION of copyright (in this area) is the unconditional right of the author to control the integrity of his work, and the mandatory reference to his name when using and citing his work (both in its entirety and in individual fragments ).

On the website of the publication (http://periodicals.karazin.ua/cscs), as well as in various citation systems and databases (ISSN, Index Copernicus, SJIF, etc.), the full texts of scientific articles of the journal "CS&CS" are publicly available. their constituent parts and corresponding metadata.

In all articles of the "CS&CS" magazine, the following are indicated for each of the authors: - current place of work and the position held; - academic degree and academic title; - postal and e-mail address. This provides the possibility of direct communication of the author with specialists from different countries. Each article is assigned a UDC (DOI), and the metadata that is attached contains additional information suitable for computer processing and other identifiers about the posted materials.

More detailed information on the observance of publishing ethics, norms of review of materials, principles of licensing, observance of copyright and related rights, which should be guided, is contained in the relevant international standards, professional codes and manuals. Among them are the International Standards of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Creative Commons Licenses, the Budapest Open Access Initiative, the Guidelines for Reviewers of the Elsevier Publishing House, the Code of Ethics for Scientific Publications, etc.