If the Publisher decides to reject the Submission or refuse to publish the Article in the Journal, this Agreement becomes invalid. The decision to refuse publication will be sent to the Author at the e-mail address specified in the Submission.
The Publisher undertakes to provide the Author with the necessary services related to the publication of the Article on the Journal’s website during the term of the agreement.
4. General Provisions of Rendering the Services
The Publisher will provide services to the Author only if the following conditions are met:
- The parties have concluded a corresponding service agreement.
- The Author has uploaded to the site all the materials necessary to enable the provision of services.
- The Author has paid for the services in full.
Services are provided to the Author on a paid basis after executing the appropriate contracts (for Fast-track editorial evaluation of a manuscript and prior-to-schedule publication in case of its acceptance, for publication of the article in open access, etc.).
If the materials are provided by the Author in violation of the guidelines and requirements of this offer, the Publisher reserves the right to reject the Submission and refuse to provide services if it has been found that the provided materials violate any of the guidelines and requirements of this offer.
The Publisher will not be held responsible for the unauthorized use by third parties of the data provided by the Author during the term of the agreement.
5. Rights and Duties of the Parties
The Author guarantees that:
- S/he holds the copyright the exclusive rights to the materials transferred as part of the manuscript of the Article.
- The rights granted to the Publisher under this agreement have not been previously transferred and will not be transferred to third parties in the future during the duration of the Agreement.
- The manuscript contains all references to the cited authors and/or publications (materials) provided for under the current copyright legislation.
- The Author has obtained all the necessary permissions for all information and other materials s/he holds no copyright to and that are used in the manuscript of the Article.
- The Article manuscript contains only materials permitted to be published in the open press in accordance with the current legislative acts of the Russian Federation, and its publication and distribution will not lead to the disclosure of secret (confidential) information (including state secrets).
- The Author has informed co-authors about the terms of this Agreement and has received their consent to execute this Agreement under the terms provided for in the Agreement. The Author carries certain obligations under the terms of the Agreement.
- S/he should submit the manuscript of the Article in accordance with the Author Guidelines listed on the Journal’s website;
- The author should not use an electronic copy of the Article for commercial purposes and in other journal publications without the consent of the Publisher;
- In the process of preparing a manuscript for publication, the Author is obligated to undertake the following:
- Make corrections to the text of the manuscript that have been marked by the reviewers and accepted by the editorial board, and/or as necessary, upon the request of the Publisher and the editorial board, finalize the manuscript of the Article;
- Review and accept of reject the proofreading of the manuscript of the article under the terms stipulated by the publication schedule of the Journal;
- Make only the minimum of corrections to the proofreading of manuscript, which usually entails correcting and/or making factual and conjecture changes.
The Author has the following rights and duties:
- Use preprint or prior-to publication versions of an unpublished article in the form and content accepted by the Publisher for publication in the Journal. Such prior-to-publish versions can be placed as electronic files on the personal websites of the Author (co-authors) or on the protected external websites of the employers of the Author; however, the Author cannot use the unpublished version(s) for commercial sale or for systematic external distribution by a third party (i.e. post on social media). The author or co-authors must, in turn, carry out certain duties, namely:
- Include the following warning in the prior-to-publish version: “This is prior-to-publish version of the article accepted for publication in (Journal’s name), ©, copyright (year), copyright owner specified in the Journal)”;
- Provide the corresponding electronic link to the Publisher’s website at https://vestnikdv.ru/ and/or via the DOI.
- Copy or transfer a copy of the published article in whole or in part to colleagues free of charge for their personal or professional use, for the promotion of academic or scientific research, or for informational purposes of the Author’s employer.
- Use materials from a published article in a book written by one of the co-authors.
- Use individual figures, tables and text excerpts from the Article for his or her (or co-authors’ own training purposes or to include them in other published works in printed or electronic format) by a third party, or to submit them in electronic format on an internal computer network or on the public website of the Author (co-authors) or his/her employer.
- Include the Article in educational collections for use in the classroom, either for free distribution to the Author’s (co-authors’) students or in electronic format on a local server for access by students as part of the training course, as well as for internal training programs at the institution of the Author’s employer.
The Publisher, for its part, is obliged to:
- Publish the Author’s article in the Journal in printed and electronic form in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
- If necessary as so decided by the Journal’s editorial board, provide the Author with the proofreading of the manuscript and make a reasonable edit of the Author’s work;
- Provide the Author with an electronic copy of the published Article to the Author’s e-mail address within 15 working days from the date of publication of the relevant Journal issue;
- Comply with the Author’s rights as provided for by the current legislation, as well as protect them and take all necessary measures to prevent copyright infringement by third parties.
The Publisher has a right to:
- Carry out technical and literary editing of the Article manuscript without altering the main content;
- Conduct an expert evaluation of the manuscript and invite the Author to make the necessary changes, if any, of which until such time the article will not yet be published in the Journal;
- In any subsequent authorized use by the Author (and/or other persons) of the Journal and/or Article (including any separate part or fragment thereof), require that a link to the Journal, Publisher, Author or other copyright holders, the title of the Article, the Journal number, and the year of publication be specified in the Journal;
- Post preliminary and/or advertising information about the upcoming publication of the Article in the media and other information sources;
- Establish the guidelines for accepting and publishing materials in the Journal;
- Temporarily suspend the provision of services to the Author when technical, technological or other issues that prevent the smooth provision of such services are encountered, until such that the issues are eliminated;
- Make changes to the offer in accordance with the pro