Policy and Guidance
Peer Review Process
All manuscripts undergo double-blind peer review by experts in the field of educational technology and related disciplines, in alignment with OAPA's Publishing Policy. The Journal Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editors rely on judgments of expert reviewers to inform decisions to accept, reject, or request revisions.
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Ownership
The Journal is owned by the Communications Institute of Greece and published by the Open Access Publishing Association. The Journal has a shared management committee convened by the Editor-in-Chief comprising one representative from the Publisher, the Owner, and the Editor-in-Chief. The Editor-in-Chief appoints Associate Editors for handling papers, and an Editorial Review Board to advise on journal strategy and support review.
Copyright
The Journal applies the following copyright statement to all articles: Copyright © by the authors, in its year of first publication. This publication is an open access publication under the Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 4.0 license. You can Share — Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially, under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. Authors are also welcome to deposit versions of their work in any institutional or other repository of their choice.
Article Processing Charges (APCs) and Fees
The Journal does not have any fees or charges associated with publication, in line with its commitment to being diamond open access.
Process for Complaints, Appeals, and Misconduct
All forms of complaints, appeals, and misconduct should be initially addressed to the Editor-in-Chief. Where the complaint pertains to the Editor-in-Chief, or the matter is not resolved satisfactorily, please address the complaint to the Publishing President: president@open-publishing.org. COPE Guidelines for investigation are used for handling complaints, appeals, and allegations of misconduct. This includes, but is not limited to, allegations of AI use inconsistent with the declarations made by authors.
Authorship and Conflicts of Interest
The Journal expects that all authors named meet at least two of the substantiative elements of significant contributions (Section 2.1) under the Australian Research Council's authorship policy, irrespective of country of authorship. Authors remain accountable for their research, and must declare all perceived and actual conflicts of interest at point of submission.
Publication Schedule
The Journal produces two annual issues, and periodically considers between one and two Special Issues per annum.
Archival Records
The Publisher retains six-hourly backups of all manuscripts and persistent archiving through a third-party Australian-based provider.
Revenue
JEICOM is funded by the Communications Institute of Greece, and may periodically seek sponsorship through the OAPA Partnership Committee, noting that publication decisions are made independent of any funding, and are in compliance with the OAPA Ad Policy.
AI Use Policy
The Journal editorial team outline the following rules in relation to how authors and editorial members should work with Artificial Intelligence tools and platforms.
1. AI cannot be listed as an author on submissions. An author must be able to agree to and be accountable for the aspects of their authorship under the CRediT taxonomy, which an AI cannot do.
2. Authors must acknowledge the contribution made by AI tools to any aspects of the submissions published. In the acknowledgement section the authors should outline the specific tasks AI was used to complete, including (but not limited to) research design, data analyses, data visualisation, text creation/editing, etc...
3. Reviewers do not have permission to use Generative AI to complete any reviews of submissions. Sharing articles under review with third party AI providers for this purpose may contravene authors’ intellectual property rights to their work.
