Privacy Statement

Peer Review Process

The Journal of Awareness Based Systems Change operates on a full spectrum peer review process.

Publication Frequency 

JASC  publishes two times per year, on May 31st and November 30th.

Open Access Policy

This is an open access journal, licensed

• under a CC BY license, which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author, but giving appropriate credit.
• Authors are permitted to deposit all versions of their paper in an institutional or subject repository including:
• Preprint
• Author's Accepted Manuscript
• Published article (Version of Record)
• There is no embargo on listing articles in repositories outside of JASC.

Authors are not charged any APCs (Article Processing Charges) or other publication fees.

Permissions

It is not necessary to obtain permission to reuse articles published in this journal, provided that reuse is in line with the article's Creative Commons license and attribution to the author(s) and the published article is maintained. Please note that these terms do not extend to any material that has separate licensing terms specified or any material that is identified as being the copyright of a third party. Permission to reproduce third-party material must be obtained directly from the copyright holders concerned.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the PKP-PN achieving system to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. If, for any reason, the PKP platform were to shut down, archived issues of JASC would be housed and made available at https://www.u-school.org/research .

Disclaimer

The content of the papers published in JASC represents the views of the author only and is his/her sole responsibility.

The Journal of Awareness Based Systems Change and editors disclaim any liability of violations of other parties' rights, or any damage incurred as a consequence to use or apply any of the contents of JASC.

In submitting a paper to JASC the author warrants that the article is original and has not been published or presented for publication elsewhere and that nothing in the article violates any right of privacy or infringes any intellectual property rights or other rights of any kind of any person or entity.

Journal Sponsorship

• Presencing Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. https://www.u-school.org/ 

Complaints and Appeals Policy

If you have any concerns or appeals related to the conduct of our editors and/or peer reviewers, such as potential breaches of confidentiality, unacknowledged conflicts of interest, inappropriate use of confidential information, or disagreements about retraction decisions, please reach out to katrin.kaeufer@presencing.org. This also applies to administrative issues like unusual editorial procedures or lack of responsiveness from journal staff. We assure that all such matters will be addressed promptly and appropriately.

Research Misconduct Policy

Research misconduct is defined as significant violations of ethical and professional norms in the planning, execution, reporting, or dissemination of research. This term broadly covers activities such as fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, and any other actions that jeopardize the integrity and authenticity of scholarly work.

If there are allegations of research misconduct, they should be directed to oliver.koenig@suttneruni.at. Upon receiving such an allegation, the JASC Editorial Team will engage in a thorough review of the claims and undertake an impartial and confidential investigation. The team is committed to communicating the findings of this investigation to the concerned author within three months from the date of the allegation.

Conflict of Interest Policy

It is the collective responsibility of authors, reviewers, editors, staff, and the journal's publisher/owner to disclose any conflicts of interest. These conflicts may encompass a range of issues, including but not limited to personal relationships, affiliations, biases towards certain groups, connections with relevant organizations, financial incentives, personal benefits, academic competitions, or ideological beliefs that could potentially compromise the objectivity of their work or assessments. In instances of a conflict of interest, JASC reserves the right to take appropriate actions, which may include halting the publication process or retracting a previously published article.

Ethical Oversight Policy

Authors are responsible for adhering to all guidelines for ethical practice as established under the codes of conduct set for by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the American Psychological Association (APA). 

Take Down Policy

What the Journal of Awareness Based Systems Change will do if you believe content in this journal infringes any person's rights, or applicable EU laws.

We make every effort to ensure that published content does not infringe any person's rights, or applicable laws.

Should you discover content in this journal that you believe to be illegal, or infringes any of your statutory rights, you may contact the Editor who will review the complaint.

On receipt of your complaint, the Editorial team will:

1. Make an initial assessment of its validity
2. Acknowledge receipt of the complaint by email
3. For all but spurious complaints, cease access to the item that is subject to complaint
4. Seek to verify your identity and authority as a complainant.

When the authenticity of your complaint has been verified and the Editor has been advised that it is ostensibly legitimate, the item will be removed from public access. If it is confirmed that it does not breach any law then the item will be reinstated.

Corrections Policy

Prior to publication, authors will be asked to submit the most current meta-data (authorship order, affiliations, emails, keywords and abstract) through a standardized form. It is the authors responsibility to ensure that this information is accurate as changes will not be made after publication. 

In addition, authors will be asked to review and approve recommended copy edits and check their manuscript for accuracy. In the case that typos or formatting errors occur in the production process, authors are asked to contact the Editorial Team specifying the location and nature of the error and we will make the necessary corrections.

Privacy and Consent Policy 

The data collected from registered and non-registered users of this journal falls within the scope of the standard functioning of peer-reviewed journals. It includes information that makes communication possible for the editorial process; it is used to inform readers about the authorship and editing of content; it enables collecting aggregated data on readership behaviors, as well as tracking geopolitical and social elements of scholarly communication.

This journal’s editorial team uses this data to guide its work in publishing and improving this journal. Data that will assist in developing this journal platform (Open Journal Systems – OJS) may be shared with its developer Public Knowledge Project (PKP) who provide this journal platform, in an anonymized and aggregated form, with appropriate exceptions such as article metrics. The data will not be sold by this journal or PKP nor will it be used for purposes other than those stated here.

Registered Users

Users who register with this journal, including authors and peer reviewers where applicable, consent to having the personal information being stored in JASC hosting platform (OJS) and processed by the platform and journal editorial teams.

Authors

Authors who make a submission to this journal consent to the personal information they supply as part of the submission being stored on the JASC hosting platform (OJS) and processed by the platform and journal editorial teams. Authors who make a submission have the responsibility to ensure that all contributors have read this Privacy and Consent policy and consent to having their personal information that is supplied as part of the submission process being stored in JASC hosting platform (OJS) and processed by the platform and journal editorial teams. Authors published in this journal are also responsible for the human subject data that figures in the research reported in the journal.

Website Visitors

JASC hosting platform (OJS) collects anonymized usage log data, including IP addresses, pages visited, date visited, browser information, and geographical data. This information is not used to identify visitors personally and it is not used for any purpose other than what is described here.

Rights of the Individual

Those involved in editing this journal seek to be compliant with industry standards for data privacy, including the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provision for “data subject rights” that include (a) breach notification; (b) right of access; (c) the right to be forgotten; (d) data portability; and (e) privacy by design. The GDPR also allows for the recognition of “the public interest in the availability of the data,” which has a particular saliency for those involved in maintaining, with the greatest integrity possible, the public record of scholarly publishing.

All users whose details are stored in JASC OJS installation can exercise their rights of the individual, as they are detailed in the GDPR.

If you have a user account and wish to have it deleted, please email a member of the editorial team.