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Personal Data Protection
In May 2016, the European Union approved a new data privacy law called the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which applies to all organizations that collect the personal data of EU citizens. Because the personal data of the authors (name, surname, affiliation, institution address, e-mail) are part of the editing format of scientific articles in PRO LIGNO journal, with full-text online coverage on the journal's website, when they submit a manuscript for publication in PRO LIGNO journal, the authors are expressing automatically their agreement to the online publishing of these data, as well as to their processing by the editorial board of PRO LIGNO journal (for review; storage during review process; archiving - for an indefinite period for the accepted papers, respectively for one week - for the rejected papers, these periods being calculated starting from the date when the editor-in-chief transmits the decision to the authors).
Author responsibility
The authors are exclusively responsible for the contents of their submissions, the validity of the experimental results and must make sure that they have permission from all involved parties to make the data public. It is the responsibility of each author to ensure that papers submitted to PRO LIGNO Journal are written with ethical standards in mind, concerning plagiarism or duplicate publication. It is unethical for authors to submit multiple similar manuscripts for publication at a time. It is also unethical for authors to submit a manuscript that has already been published or is in the process of review elsewhere. Any paper which shows obvious signs of plagiarism will be automatically rejected and its authors will be banned from publishing in PRO LIGNO. The authors will receive proper notification if such a situation arises.
Plagiarism – Definition and Context
Plagiarism, where someone assumes another's ideas, words, or other creative expression as one's own, is a clear violation of scientific ethics. Plagiarism may also involve a violation of copyright law, punishable by legal action.
Plagiarism may constitue the following:
- Word for word, or almost word for word copying, or purposely paraphrasing portions of another author's work without clearly indicating the source or marking the copied fragment (for example, using quotation marks);
- Copying equations, figures or tables from someone else's paper without properly citing the source and/or without permission from the original author or the copyright holder.
Self-plagiarism, as a related issue, is the word for word or almost word for word reproduction of portions of one's own copyrighted work without proper citation of the original material. Self-plagiarism does not apply to publications based on the author's own previously copyrighted work (for example from conference proceedings) where proper reference was given for the original text.
The Editorial Board of PRO LIGNO will place any plagiarism-related investigation at high priority and will take appropriate action as needed.
To screen plagiarism, PRO LIGNO uses the TURNITIN software purchased by the Transilvania University of Brasov.
Conflict of interest
All authors are requested to disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest such as any financial, personal or other relationships with other people or organizations concerning the submitted work that could inappropriately influence, or be perceived to influence, their work. Authors must state all funding sources that have supported the work.
Copyright
PRO LIGNO is an open access journal. The authors retain copyright and transfer first publication rights to the journal.
The full text of the articles can be accessed freely, without charging the user or his/her institution any fee. Users can read, download, copy, distribute, print or create links to the full text of the articles published in this journal, without requesting permission from the publisher or the author. They may reuse the content as long as they give credit to the original publication. Commercial re-use is prohibited
As an author, you retain the right to reuse the content of the article published in PRO LIGNO in several ways. These rights include:
- The right to read, download, copy, distribute, print or create links to the full text of your published articles;
- The right to present at a conference an article you have published in PRO LIGNO;
- The right to include the content of your article (partially or fully) in your doctoral thesis;
- Patent and trademark rights on any process or procedures described in the article;
- The right to prepare derivative works, to expand the content of the article in book form, or to reuse portions of the published article in other works, provided the original article is fully cited.
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