Copyright Notice, Ethics and Malpractice

Copyright Notice

The Malaysian Journal of International Relations (MJIR) adopts CC-BY license. As such, we would be grateful if the republication is accompanied by an acknowledgement that the work was originally published in MJIR.  (ISSN 2600-8181). The editors will ensure digital preservation of access to the journal content by the Journal depository section 

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

We encourage the best standards of publication ethics and take all possible principles of transparency and measures to avoid publication malpractice. We subscribe to the guidelines set up by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) with regard to the expectations of editors, peer-reviewers, and authors (as outlined below). Fairness, objectivity, and confidentiality from our reviewers and editors and honesty, originality, and fair dealing from our authors are the critical values that enable us to achieve our goal to publish original work of value in literary and cultural studies, in the best possible form and to the highest possible standards.

Authors' responsibilities:

• To carefully read MJIR’s Instruction for Authors before submitting their manuscript.
• To ensure that all names that appear as the manuscript’s author or authors have significantly contributed to the research.
• To confirm that the manuscript as submitted is not under consideration or accepted for publication elsewhere.
• To confirm that all the work in the submitted manuscript is original and to acknowledge and cite content reproduced from other sources.
• To obtain permission to reproduce any content from other sources. Any breach of copyright laws will result in rejection of the submitted material or its retraction after publication. 
• To agree to any necessary originality checks that the manuscript may have to undergo during the evaluation or production process.
• To declare any potential conflicts of interest (e.g. where the author has a competing interest (real or apparent) that could be considered or viewed as exerting an undue influence on his or her duties at any stage during the publication process).
• To disclose any funding support.
• To promptly notify the journal editor or publisher if a significant error in their publication is identified. To cooperate with the editor and publisher to publish an erratum, addendum, corrigendum notice, or to retract the paper, where this is deemed necessary.