Policy

Copyrights and Open Access Policy

Copyrights for published work at SUJBM are retained by the authors, with first publication rights granted to the journal.

The work published at SJBM is protected under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Copyrights of all the published work at SJBM are held with DHA Suffa University (DSU). However, being an open access journal, readers are allowed to download, read and print the full text papers of SJBM without prior permission from the DSU or the author as long as they acknowledge/cite the SJBM as original source.

Research papers submitted to SJBM should be original and should not be under consideration to some other publisher at the same time. Authors warrant that they are the sole owner of their research work and their submission is not an infringement of any copyright, trade secret or other proprietary rights and will indemnify the society of any breach of such warranty.

Plagiarism Policy

SUJBM strictly follows zero plagiarism policy. Author(s) are responsible to ensure that there is no plagiarism in the submitted work. The journal use Turnitin to check the similarity and identify plagiarism. SJBM allows up to 19% Similarity. For detailed guidelines about Turnitin please click here

Self-plagiarism: Verbatim or substantial copying of authors’ own published work affecting originality of current submission is also no acceptable in any way.