Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Community Services is an implementation activity of science, technology and cultural arts directly to the community institutionally through scientific methodology as a translation of the Tri Dharma of Higher Education,as well as the responsibility of scientists in efforts to develop community capacity, so as to accelerate the pace of growth in achieving development goals. So that community services can be done affectively and efficiently, it is necessary to conduct research before and after its implementation.

The Scope of Community Service includes the following fields of activity:

  1. The development of technological science and art into products that can be directly utilized by the community.
  2. Training services, economic empowerment of communities to become independent, and the development of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME)
  3. Dissemination of science, technology and cultural arts is a product that needs to be known and utilized by the community. This effort can be done through various ways such as providing counseling, providing pilots, demonstrating, and publishing media publications.
  4. Placement of science and technology correctly and appropriately according to the situation of the people and the demands of development.
  5. Providing assistance to the community in identifying problems faced and finding alternative solutions by using a scientific approach.
  6. Providing professional services to the community in various problem areas that require careful handling by using expertise and skills that are not yet owned by the community concerned.

 

Section Policies

Articles

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Peer Review Process

The submitted manuscript is first checked by an editor, whether it is suitable with our focus and scope, in two weeks. A editorial assistant will check whether the requirements are complete in one week. Authors will be given two weeks after notification is sent to complete the incomplete requirements. Every submitted manuscript which pass this step will be reviewed by two or three reviewers (double blind peer-review). At least one of the reviewer is appointed from other institutions. These manuscript will be sent to the reviewer anonymously. Reviewers comment are then sent to corresponding author to take the necessary actions and responses. The decision of the revised manuscript will be then evaluated in editorial board meeting, the final decision of whom are sent to the corresponding author. The accepted manuscript will be checked by copyeditor for language editing.

 

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.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Publication Ethics

International Journal of Research in Community Services (IJRCS) and is the flagship journal of the Research Collaboration Community (RCC), it is the aim of IJRCS to present papers which cover the theory, practice, history or methodology of Research in Community Services (RCS). However, since RCS is primarily an applied science, it is a major objective of the journal to attract and publish accounts of good, practical case studies. Consequently, papers illustrating applications of RCS to real problems are especially welcome. This statement of scientific code of ethics is a statement of code of ethics for all parties involved in the publication process of this scientific journal, namely the writer, editor, reviewer.

 

Plagiarism Check

The copyright to this article is transferred to the International Journal of Research in Community Services (IJRCS), after the article is accepted by the IJQRM for publication. The copyright transfer covers the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute the article. These include reprints, translations, photographic reproductions, microform, electronic form (offline, online) or any other reproductions of similar nature.

The author warrants that this article is original and signs for and accepts responsibility for releasing this material on behalf of any and all co-authors. The author also warrant for his/her power to make this grant.

An author may make his/her article published by the IJRCS available on his/her personal home page provided the source of the published article is cited. After submission of this agreement, changes of authorship or in the order of the authors listed will not be accepted.

 

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Copyright Transfer Statement

The copyright to this article is transferred to the International Journal of Research in Community Services (IJRCS), after the article is accepted by the IJRCSfor publication. The copyright transfer covers the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute the article. These include reprints, translations, photographic reproductions, microform, electronic form (offline, online) or any other reproductions of similar nature.

Copyright tranfer statement the author to the journal is done through filling out the copyright transfer form by author. The form can be downloaded HERE. The completed form must be uploaded to the submission system in the Supplementary file section.