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• Open Access
• Copyright and Licensing
• Editorial Procedures and Peer-Review
• Publication Ethics Statement

Open Access

Insights in Animal Science (ISSN 3007-6420) is a peer reviewed, open access journal. All types of articles including regular articles, review papers, short communications, and editorials published open access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read, download, copy and distribute. All our articles are published under a Creative Commons (CC BY) license.

Meaning of Open Access

In accordance with major definitions of open access in scientific literature, we define open access by the following conditions:

• all content including peer-reviewed literature is freely available without subscription or price barriers,
• published content is immediately released in open access format (no embargo period), and
• published content can be re-used without obtaining permission as long as a correct citation to the original publication is given.

Copyright and Licensing

Creative Commons Attribution - CC BY

All content in Insights in Animal Science is available under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.This license allows users to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon the original work, even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit the original creation. The full details of the license are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered.

Copyright

Each published content has a copyright holder, with the following statement:

CC BY 4.0

Editorial Procedures and Peer-Review

Pre-check

Immediately after submission, the journal’s Editors will perform the technical pre-check to assess the quality of the manuscript.

The academic editor (i.e., the Editor-in-Chief or an Editorial Board member will be notified of the submission and invited to perform an editorial pre-check. During the editorial pre-check phase, the academic editor will assess the suitability of the submission with respect to the scope of the journal, as well as the overall scientific soundness of the manuscript, including the relevance of the references and the correctness of the applied methodology. Academic editors can decide to reject the manuscript, request revisions before peer-review, or continue with the peer-review process and recommend suitable reviewers.

Peer-Review

Once a manuscript passes the initial checks, it will be assigned to at least two independent experts for peer-review. A single-blind review is applied, where authors' identities are known to reviewers. Peer review comments are confidential and will only be disclosed with the express agreement of the reviewer.

In the case of regular submissions, in-house assistant editors will invite experts, including recommendations by an academic editor. These experts may also include Editorial Board Members and Guest Editors of the journal. Potential reviewers suggested by the authors may also be considered. Reviewers should not have published with any of the co-authors during the past three years and should not currently work or collaborate with any of the institutions of the co-authors of the submitted manuscript.

Publication Ethics Statement

IAP follows the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We fully adhere to its Code of Conduct and to its Best Practice Guidelines.

The editors of this journal enforce a rigorous peer-review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, image manipulation, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. The editors of Insights in Animal Science take such publishing ethics issues very seriously.

Authors wishing to publish their papers in Insights in Animal Science must abide to the following:

• Any facts that might be perceived as a possible conflict of interest of the author(s) must be disclosed in the paper prior to submission.
• Authors should accurately present their research findings and include an objective discussion of the significance of their findings.
• Data and methods used in the research need to be presented in sufficient detail in the paper, so that other researchers can replicate the work.
• Raw data should preferably be publicly deposited by the authors before submission of their manuscript. Authors need to at least have the raw data readily available for presentation to the referees and the editors of the journal, if requested. Authors need to ensure appropriate measures are taken so that raw data is retained in full for a reasonable time after publication.
• Simultaneous submission of manuscripts to more than one journal is unacceptable.
• If errors and inaccuracies are found by the authors after publication of their paper, they need to be promptly communicated to the editors of this journal so that appropriate actions can be taken.
• Your manuscript should not contain any information that has already been published. If you include already published figures or images, please obtain the necessary permission from the copyright holder to publish under the CC-BY license.
• Plagiarism, data fabrication and image manipulation are not tolerated.
• Plagiarism is not acceptable in Insights in Animal Science submissions.

  Plagiarism includes copying text, ideas, images, or data from another source, even from your own publications, without giving any credit to the original source.

  Reuse of text that is copied from another source must be between quotes and the original source must be cited. If a study's design or the manuscript's structure or language has been inspired by previous works, these works must be explicitly cited.

  All submissions are checked for plagiarism. If plagiarism is detected during the peer review process, the manuscript may be rejected. If plagiarism is detected after publication, an investigation will take place and action taken in accordance with our policies.

• Image files must not be manipulated or adjusted in any way that could lead to misinterpretation of the information provided by the original image.
  

  Irregular manipulation includes: 1) introduction, enhancement, moving, or removing features from the original image; 2) grouping of images that should obviously be presented separately (e.g., from different parts of the same gel, or from different gels); or 3) modifying the contrast, brightness or color balance to obscure, eliminate or enhance some information.

  If irregular image manipulation is identified and confirmed during the peer review process, we may reject the manuscript. If irregular image manipulation is identified and confirmed after publication, we may correct or retract the paper.

Our in-house editors will investigate any allegations of publication misconduct and may contact the authors' institutions or funders if necessary. If evidence of misconduct is found, appropriate action will be taken to correct or retract the publication. Authors are expected to comply with the best ethical publication practices when publishing with us.