Publication ethics

Conflict of Interest 

Journal of Academic Library Practice seeks to avoid conflicts of interest for associate editors, in which the relationship to the authors could bias judgement of the manuscript. Therefore, associate editors are generally not assigned manuscripts by an individual who has served as the main graduate student advisor of the associate editor, or where the associate editor had a key advising role for the individual as a graduate student, or where the individual is an active and recent coauthor of the associate editor, or where the associate editor or the editor judges there to be a concern due to some other close relationship.

Authors are required to declare and acknowledge any material conflict of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any people, organizations, companies, or institutions connected to the manuscript.

Peer reviewers are asked to disclose potential conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to a manuscript they have been invited to review. Every reviewer is required to treat each manuscript received for review as confidential.

Research Misconduct

Before publication, the JALP Editorial Team, working with peer reviewers, takes reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of manuscripts that show evidence of research misconduct. (Research misconduct includes but is not limited to plagiarism, citation manipulation, and data falsification and/or fabrication.) After publication, if the Editorial Team members are made aware of an allegation of research misconduct relating to a published article in the journal, the allegations will be addressed by the JALP Ethics Committee (both the editorial board and the advisory board). Where applicable, they may follow the guidelines published by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Plagiarism check

Original research published in the Journal of Academic Library Practice will go through a plagiarism check using the iThenticate software. The report generated from iThenticate will be evaluated to check if the similarity in the report is within the expected percentage of 15% similarity.