In principle, journal editors can not independently decide which articles shall be published. In making decisions regarding publishing, editors are guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and are limited by applicable legal requirements relating to defamation, copyright infringement, double publishing, and plagiarism. Articles that have been published will remain extant, exact and unaltered as far as is possible. However, under certain circumstances can arise where articles that have been published must then be withdrawn or even deleted. Such actions should not be carried out except in exceptional circumstances.

A retraction of articles that have been published can be initiated by journal editors, by authors and/or their institutions. In certain cases the retraction must be accompanied by an apology for the previous mistakes and/or expressions of gratitude to those who revealed the error to the author. A retraction of published scientific articles must be accompanied by a statement that the original article must not be published and that data and conclusions should not be used as part of the basis for future research.

This article retraction rule is also based on the COPE Retraction Guidelines.

Article withdrawal

Article withdraw circumstances can occur if the initial version of the article contains an error, or may have been accidentally sent twice to both DIGLOSIA and/or a different publisher. In addition, it can also occur due to an element of Infringements of the scientific code of ethics, such as double submissions, false claims of authorship, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, fraudulent use of data or the like. Articles that meet the element of Infringements of the code of ethics upon the awareness of the author can make a withdrawal of his article accompanied by a letter of statement withdrawal addressed to the editorial board of DIGLOSIA. Article retraction for the aforementioned reasons can be carried out only if the article is not yet available online on the website. Authors cannot request the retraction or replacement of a manuscript that has already been accepted and is ready for publication for any reason, except for the reasons mentioned above.

Article retraction

A retraction is carried out if an article is indicated to have Infringements of scientific ethical codes, such as double submissions, false claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data, fake authors or the like. Also, a retraction will be used to correct errors in submission or publication. A retraction of an article by the author or editor under the advice of the editorial board of the DIGLOSIA. There are several forms of recraction carried out by DIGLOSIA, i.e.:
1. If the infragements of the scientific code of ethics are indicated before the article published, the editor will return the manuscript to the author accompanied by a retraction letter from the Chief Editor;
2. If the infragements of the scientific code of ethics are indicated after the article published, the original article is retained unchanged save for a watermark on the PDF file indicating on each page that it is “retracted.”

Article removal: legal limitations

In an extremely limited number of cases, it may be necessary to remove an article from the online database of DIGLOSIA. This will only occur where the article is clearly defamatory, hoax, infringes others’ legal rights, a court order, and endangering state security. In these circumstances, while the metadata (Title and Authors) will be retained, the text will be replaced with a screen indicating the article has been removed for legal reasons.

Article replacement

DIGLOSIA does not provide the facility to replace or correct articles that have been published and are available online on the website. If an error occurs in a published article that is available online due to the mistake of the author(s), the editor only offers the option of Article Retraction, in accordance with the information in the previous point's explanation. This does not apply if the error is due to editor negligence.

 

Note: All article publication fees rendered to DIGLOSIA are final and non-refundable.