Publishing policy

Publishing policy – Lublin University of Technology Publishing House

Books

1. The coordination of the publishing activity on LUT is held by LUT Publishing House.
2. The supervision over the publishing activity of the Lublin University of Technology (LUT) is held by the Deputy Rector of the Scientific Affairs and the Scientific Council is the referee authority.
3. The subject of publishing performed by the LUT Publishing House is as follows: monographs, handbooks, workbooks, proceedings (they possess the ISBN number belonging to LUT and the graphic design obligatory for the LUT.
4. The funds for publications are constituted by: university’s budget, faculties’ budgets, research grants, EU funds, funds inflows from the conferences organisers and authors’ own funds.
5. The author submitting a book publication proposal should follow the guidelines described in the tabs „For Authors” and „Review procedure”.
6. The LUT Publishing House conducts the publishing and auction procedures, also draws the publishing and licence agreements.
7. The layout and appearance of the text material prepared to the printing, the cover pattern, title and editorial office pages are regulated by guidelines described in tabs: „Typografic guidelines” and „Text preparation”.
8. The author delivers the final electronic version of the publication, ready for review.
9. The detailed course and duration of the publishing process are described in the tab "Stages and duration of the publishing process”.
10. The author is given a test print of the publication. The accepted test print stays at LUT as an archive copy, and the publication is issued in the edition. If the author reports the need for corrections, WPL makes the corrections and reprints the printout..
11. Printing of the publication is outsourced by LUT PH to an outside contractor selected through a bidding process.
12. The division of the circulation of the publication funded by the university unit depends on its number and is established individually for each title, dividing copies for: the organization unit of the author, the author, the libraries (obligatory), for the LUT Library, intended for distribution.
13. The free distribution of LUT publications is based on the rules for the distribution of legal deposit copies for libraries, as described on the National Library website.
14. The electronic version of the publication is placed in the Digital Library of Lublin University of Technology in accordance with the license agreement in order to implement the Open Access Policy.
15. LUT sells its publications through an online bookstore in the Shoper system.
16. In case of suspicion of the infringement of the principles of publication ethics and scientific reliability by the author, reviewer or editor, the procedures drawn by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) included in the COPE flowcharts.

Journals

16. The LUT Publishing House is the publisher and co-publisher of the LUT journals included in the platform called “Lublin University of Technology Publishing House” (LUT PH): "Budownictwo i Architektura" ("Civil Engineering and Architecture"), "Informatyka, Automatyka, Pomiary w Gospodarce i Ochronie Środowiska" (IAPGOŚ), "Protection of Cultural Heritage" ("Ochrona Dziedzictwa Kulturowego"), and "Journal of Computer Sciences Institute" (JCSI) and „Teka Komisji Architektury, Urbanistyki i Studiów Krajobrazowych” (“Teka Commission of Architecture, Urban Planning and Landscape Studies”).
17. The author submits the scientific article to the journal via the LUT PH e-platform, taking into account the procedures and guidelines that are obligatory in that journal.
18. All the publications (the articles in the journals placed on the LUT PH platform included) are shared on the Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike licence (CC BY-SA 4.0).
19. The LUT Publishing House and the journals mentioned below have chosen the self-archiving policy, described by the SHERPA/RoMEO database as the blue colour. It means that the editorial teams allow the authors to self-archive the postprints and the publisher's versions of the texts of the monographs or articles (according to the valid CC BY-SA or CC BY licence). The journals declaring such policy of self-archiving are: "Budownictwo i Architektura" ("Civil Engineering and Architecture"), "Informatyka, Automatyka, Pomiary w Gospodarce i Ochronie Środowiska" (IAPGOŚ), "Protection of Cultural Heritage" ("Ochrona Dziedzictwa Kulturowego") and "Journal of Computer Sciences Institute" (JCSI).
20. The rules of use of the LUT PH e-platform were described in detail in the “Regulations of the LUT PH e-platform”.

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