INFOLIB–INFORMATION-LIBRARY JOURNAL OF UZBEKISTAN

• The Editorial Board of the information and library science journal INFOLIB includes the following in its plagiarism policy:
• Plagiarism presents someone else’s ideas from other materials, as well as words or other creative expressions, as one’s own, which is a clear violation of academic ethical standards. Plagiarism may also involve copyright infringement.
• Verbatim or nearly verbatim copying, as well as intentional paraphrasing of fragments of another author's work without clearly indicating the source or marking the copied fragment (for example, by using quotation marks). If the source is from a journal, the citation style should be as follows:
• [1] Author, A.A., Author, B.B., & Author, C.C. (year). Title of the article in sentence case. JOURNAL TITLE IN CAPITALS, volume(issue), first page – last page;
• Copying formulas, figures, or tables from another article without proper source attribution and/or without permission from the author or copyright holder.
• All submitted works are thoroughly checked for plagiarism using antiplag.uz.
• Any article in which clear signs of plagiarism are detected will be automatically rejected, and additional sanctions may be applied (the editorial board will refuse any further cooperation with the author(s)). If plagiarism is discovered in an article already published in the journal, it will be retracted in accordance with the procedure described below in the “Retraction Policy” section, and the authors will be subject to further sanctions.

Conflict of Interest

Authors must disclose in their manuscript any financial or other significant conflicts of interest that could have influenced the results presented or their interpretation. If there is no conflict of interest to declare, the following standard statement should be added: “No conflict of interest has been disclosed.”

A conflict of interest may be financial or non-financial in nature:

• individuals who receive funding, salary, or other forms of compensation from an organization, or who own shares or equity in a company that may gain (or lose) financially from the publication of the results;
• individuals whose organizations or employers fund them and who have (or are applying for) relevant patents;
• official affiliations and membership in interest groups related to the content of the publication;
• family, political, religious, or ideological conflicts of interest.

Authors from commercial companies or other organizations that sponsor sociological studies in the information and library sector or other research must declare any conflict of interest when submitting their manuscript. The affiliation of each author with such an organization must be described in the “Conflict of Interest” section. Publications in the journal must not contain content that advertises any commercial products.