Policy of the journal

Terms of the manuscript publication

Journal “Bulletin of KazNU. Herald of journalism” is published 4 times a year in an electronic format in the following established terms of the journal's issues: the first issue is released until March 20 of the current year, the second issue – until June 20; the third issue – until September 20 and the fourth issue – until December 20.

For publication in the journal of “Bulletin of KazNU. Herald of journalism” previously unpublished articles by the author (s) in Kazakh, Russian or English are accepted, which correspond to the thematic areas of the journal and are drawn up strictly according to the requirements of the manuscript.

The manuscript of a scientific article is submitted to the editorial board by the corresponding author (determined from the number of the author's collective of the manuscript if there are 2 or more co-authors) at least two months before the next issue of the journal is published. Manuscripts of at least 3,000 words and no more than 7,000 words (excluding title, information about authors, annotations, keywords, list of references) are accepted for publication in the journal.

The manuscript should be uploaded via the electronic platform by the corresponding author, indicating all the methodological data and its authors. An article by the same author (prepared individually or in co-authorship) may be published in the journal no more than once during a calendar year.

Authors must submit to the editorial board an original work that has not been previously published in other publications (in print, electronic, and other open sources). The authors are responsible for the reliability, novelty, and replicability of the research results. At the stage of the manuscript reviews by the editorial board and reviewers of the journal of “Bulletin of KazNU. Herald of journalism”, as well as after its publication, the authors undertake not to submit this manuscript for publication in other publications.

At the stages of working on a manuscript, communication between the editorial board, the corresponding author and reviewers is carried out via the electronic (online) platform OJS, and in exceptional cases – via e-mail.

The editorial board of the journal reviews the manuscripts received from the author (s), organizes their peer review and decides on publication or refusal to publish within two months from the date of receipt of the manuscript through the electronic platform.

The author (s) of the manuscript approved for publication in the journal are obliged to pay for the publication in accordance with the approved price list for publication in academic journals of al-Farabi KazNU. A receipt for payment for publication in pdf format is sent by the author (s) to the e-mail address of the editorial office of the journal.

Borrowing and plagiarism

When reviewing a manuscript for compliance with formal requirements (manuscript design), the editorial board of “Bulletin of KazNU. Herald of journalism” also checks for the presence of borrowed text in the manuscript through a plagiarism checker system, access to which is provided by a university subscription or on the basis of a national subscription.

Only original manuscripts and/or those manuscripts in which the originality is more than 75% based on the results of checking through the anti-plagiarism system are sent for further review. In case the manuscript does not meet the journal format requirements and is not an original work based on the results of the plagiarism check, then the manuscript is returned to the corresponding author for making the appropriate changes and resubmitting the manuscript for review by the editorial board through the electronic platform of the journal.

In case the authors used works, articles, statements, or quotes and statements of other researchers when writing the manuscript, they must necessarily cite the works of these scholars and correctly format the quoted text. Plagiarism is an unethical act that violates the principles of the Code of Ethics of the al-Farabi KazNU scholar and is unacceptable in the “Bulletin of KazNU. Herald of journalism.”

Persons involved in the publishing process, especially members of the editorial board of the journal of “Bulletin of KazNU. Herald of journalism”, in order to ensure high quality of scientific publications, and to avoid unfair practices in publishing activities, such as the use of false information, falsification of data, etc., to ensure the recognition of scientific achievements by the society, undertake to comply with the principles, standards and norms of scientific ethics adopted by the international community and at al-Farabi KazNU, as well as pledging to take measures to prevent such violations.

The members of the editorial board of the journal of “Bulletin of KazNU. Herald of journalism” pledge not to allow violations by the authors, members of the editorial board, reviewers of the principles, standards, and norms of scientific ethics adopted by the international community and at al-Farabi KazNU.

In case of detection of violations of the principles, standards, and norms of scientific ethics adopted by the international community and at the al-Farabi KazNU, the editorial board of the journal undertakes to act in accordance with the "Ethics of publication for academic journals of al-Farabi KazNU", the Scientist Code of Ethics of al-Farabi KazNU and the Standards of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

In the event that a provable fact (s) of violation of the principles, standards, and norms of scientific ethics was discovered in an article published in the journal of “Bulletin of KazNU. Herald of journalism”, the editorial board pledges to remove this article from the issue in which it was published and from the official website of the journal (to carry out the retraction of the article) with the obligatory indication of specific violations by the author (s) of the principles, standards, and norms of scientific ethics and place the corresponding announcement in the next issue of the journal.

The author (s) of the article, in which a provable fact of violation of the principles, standards and norms of scientific ethics was discovered, are not allowed to submit articles to the journal of “Bulletin of KazNU. Herald of journalism” and in other academic journals published by al-Farabi KazNU within the next 3 calendar years from the date of revealing the fact (s) of violation of the principles, standards and norms of scientific ethics.

Review process

The manuscripts received by the editorial board of the journal and meeting the formal requirements, design requirements and the indicator of originality based on verification through the plagiarism checker system, are sent for further review without exception.

In the event that the author (s) of the manuscript has/have a conflict of interest with other scholar (s), he/she (they) must indicate the existence of such a conflict of interest in the cover letter, to avoid submitting the manuscript to the specified scholar (reviewer) and biased assessments of the manuscript.

The journal of “Bulletin of KazNU. Herald of journalism” utilizes a "two-way-blind" peer-review process, carried out by at least two scholars with the academic degrees of Candidate of Science, Doctor of Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) and scientific specialization on the topic of the reviewed manuscript.

Manuscript review is carried out confidentially: the manuscript of the article is sent to reviewers through the electronic platform of the journal without specifying information about the authors. Journal reviewers are required to have a clear, objective and reasoned assessment of the compliance of the manuscript with the main scientific criteria, as well as its quality of significance.

After receiving the conclusions from the reviewers, the executive editor sends them to the corresponding author without specifying the reviewers’ information, for responding to comments, making appropriate changes and resubmitting the manuscript via the electronic platform. The author (s) may refuse to reply to comments, make changes to the manuscript and re-submit it to the editorial board of the “Bulletin of KazNU. Herald of journalism” journal without explanation.

After follow up on all the comments, making changes to the manuscript to address the comments of the reviewers and re-submitting it to the editorial board of the journal, the scientific editor sends all the materials to the reviewer (s) for re-review.

The manuscript with positive opinions from two reviewers and the executive editor are recommended for publication in the journal of “Bulletin of KazNU. Herald of journalism” according to the order of their acceptance for publication. The manuscripts approved by the editorial board are transferred to the executive secretary to include in the next issue of the journal.

In case one of the reviewers provided a positive conclusion on the manuscript, and the second reviewer’s conclusion is negative, the manuscript is sent by the scientific editor to the third reviewer or a member of the editorial board who is a specialist in the subject of the manuscript. If a third reviewer or a member of the editorial board provides a positive conclusion, the final decision on the acceptance/rejection of the publication of the manuscript is made by the scientific editor of the journal of “Bulletin of KazNU. Herald of journalism”.

In the case of two negative reviews, the manuscript is rejected from publication in the journal.

The materials of articles rejected by the editorial board based on the results of reviewing are not used by the editorial board for their purposes. The editor or executive secretary notifies the corresponding author about the rejection to publish and sends the comments of the reviewers.

The manuscript reviews are stored for three years in electronic format on the journal's electronic platform.

The period for reviewing is assigned by the editor responsible for the article, and the period for reviewing the manuscript by the reviewers is no more than two months from the date of submitting the material to the reviewers.

Free access policy and archiving

The journal of “Bulletin of KazNU. Herald of journalism” provides open access to its content on the official website of the magazine. This offers wider informational access to the journal in the global scientific community.

In addition, the journal's website provides the necessary information for authors and readers about the journal activities: conditions of publication, rules for registration and submission of manuscripts to the journal, the procedure for the formation of the journal and reviewing of manuscripts, publication ethics, information about the editorial board, contact details of the scientific editor and executive secretary.

Readers and authors can view the electronic versions of the current issue of the journal and archives for previous periods. All publications of the journal in electronic form are distributed free of charge and without restrictions under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Copyright and licensing

The authors of the “Bulletin of KazNU. Herald of journalism” journal articles reserve the right of the author to scientific work and transfer the right of the first publication together with the work to the journal, licensing it at a time under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

The authorship of the manuscript belongs to those researchers who participated directly in the creation of the manuscript, formation of the concept, writing of the article, results from the interpretation and made a significant contribution to obtaining scientific results.

Under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, the authors retain the rights to their manuscripts, while allowing everyone to freely download, reuse, reprint, change, distribute or copy them, with the obligatory acknowledgment of the authorship of this work and a link to the unique publication in this journal. Permission from the authors or publisher is not required for all the specified actions when specifying a link to the journal.

The authors reserve the right to distribute their article in other sources (for example, in the institutional archive, social networks, etc.) with the obligatory reference to its original publication in this journal.

Privacy Terms

Information about the authors – their names, affiliation, contact information, information about their professional position and academic degree, as well as links to identifiers of authors' profiles in international databases, are placed in the article in the "Information about the authors" section.

The members of the editorial board of the journal of “Bulletin of KazNU. Herald of journalism” do not disclose information about the manuscript accepted for consideration before its publication to third parties, except for the appointed reviewers. In addition, the editors do not disclose information about reviewers to authors and other persons.

These and other norms of behavior of participants in the publication process, namely the principles, norms, and standards of conduct for authors, members of the editorial board, publisher and reviewers, are based on the Ethics of Publication for Scientific Journals of al-Farabi KazNU.