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CorayNova's Policies section sets out the publisher-level standards that govern CorayNova's publishing identity, editorial independence, peer review, publication ethics, open access, author fees, rights, preservation, privacy, accessibility, and responsible scholarly communication.
These policies support transparent and accountable publishing across the CorayNova website and the CorayNova Journals Platform. They are designed to help authors, editors, reviewers, readers, institutions, libraries, societies, journal leadership, and publishing partners understand the standards that apply to CorayNova journals and services.
Where an individual journal publishes journal-specific procedures, fees, article types, peer review models, licensing choices, workflow settings, or contact routes, those individual journal pages should be read together with the applicable CorayNova publisher-level policy.
• What This Section Covers
This section is organized into four policy areas:
Ⅰ. Publisher Governance & Transparency
• Publisher Identity, Ownership, Management & Contact Information
Identifies CorayNova, its public contact routes, publishing website, journal platform, business addresses, management route, and official communication channels.
• Business Model, Revenue Sources, Advertising & Direct Marketing Policy
Explains CorayNova's revenue sources, cooperation models, advertising position, sponsorship safeguards, and the separation of business activity from editorial decisions.
• Policy Framework, Standards, Versioning & Updates
Defines how CorayNova policies are structured, reviewed, updated, versioned, owned, and connected to resources and journal-level information.
Ⅱ. Editorial Standards & Publication Ethics
• Editorial Governance, Editorial Independence & Peer Review Policy
Sets standards for editorial roles, independent academic decisions, peer review models, reviewer selection, conflicts of interest, desk rejection, revision, and decision routes.
• Research and Publication Ethics Policy
States CorayNova's expectations for research ethics approval, consent, data integrity, originality, responsible AI disclosure, image integrity, clinical trial registration where applicable, and handling suspected misconduct.
• Authorship, Contributorship, Funding & Competing Interests Policy
Defines responsibilities for authorship, contribution disclosure, author changes, funding statements, competing interests, and corresponding author accountability.
• Corrections, Retractions, Expressions of Concern & Article Removal Policy
Explains the mechanisms used to protect the scholarly record after publication, including correction notices, retractions, expressions of concern, publisher's notes, editorial notes, and article removal in exceptional cases.
Provides routes for raising complaints and appeals, including procedural concerns, factual errors, competing interests, ethics concerns, and serious scholarly or institutional issues.
• Open Access, Author Fees, Waivers & Refunds Policy
Explains CorayNova's approach to open access, APCs, submission fees where adopted, waiver and discount requests, payment timing, invoices, taxes, refunds, and the separation of fees from editorial decisions.
• Copyright, Licensing, Permissions, Reuse & Self-Archiving Policy
Sets out standards for Creative Commons licensing, author rights, publisher licenses to publish, permissions, reuse, third-party materials, and self-archiving routes.
Ⅳ. Preservation, Privacy & Inclusive Access
• Archiving, Preservation & Platform Continuity Policy
Describes CorayNova's approach to scholarly record preservation, DOI links, article landing pages, metadata continuity, PKP Preservation Network participation where supported, backups, and platform continuity planning.
• Privacy, Data Protection, Cookies & Website Terms
Explains how CorayNova handles personal data, manuscript workflow data, platform accounts, cookies, analytics, payment and invoice data where applicable, third-party services, security, user rights, and website terms.
• Accessibility, Inclusivity & Non-Discrimination Statement
States CorayNova's commitment to accessibility, inclusive scholarly communication, respectful participation, non-discrimination, and scholarly assessment based on scope, quality, ethics, evidence, and policy compliance.
• Using These Policies
Users should consult the relevant policy page, the related Resources page, and the applicable individual journal page on the CorayNova Journals Platform when preparing, submitting, reviewing, editing, reading, archiving, sharing, correcting, or otherwise supporting scholarly publications.
Policy questions should be directed to the appropriate CorayNova contact route: info@coraynova.com for general enquiries, editorial@coraynova.com for editorial, peer review, ethics, authorship, complaints, appeals, and correction matters, support@coraynova.com for platform and technical issues, marketing@coraynova.com for cooperation and institutional discussions, and executive@coraynova.com for serious institutional-level matters. Users may also contact CorayNova through the Feedback page.
