Scientific Council of the Lublin University of Technology Publishing House
The competences of the Scientific Council
In accordance with the Regulations, the competences include:
- shaping the publishing policy of Lublin University of Technology and approving the principles of financing, distribution and promotion of publications;
- to make (by representatives of scientific disciplines) a preliminary assessment of the material in terms of content, the profile of scientific activity of Lublin University of Technology and the discipline represented by the authors;
- ensuring the high scientific and editorial level of published works based on reviews, in accordance with ethical standards (COPE);
- identifying (by representatives of scientific disciplines) reviewers for particular types of publications;
- providing opinions in competitions, projects and grants related to the publication of publications of Lublin University of Technology employees.
Members of the LUT PH Scientific Council
The LUT PH Scientific Council was established by Order No. R-103/2024 of the Rector of Lublin University of Technology dated October 30, 2024.
Head of the Council: Agnieszka RZEPKA, PhD, DSc, Eng.
Secretary: Magdalena CHOŁOJCZYK, PhD
Mechanical Engineering
- Arkadiusz GOLA, PhD, DSc, Eng.
- Jarosław LATALSKI, PhD, DSc, Eng.
Civil Engineering and Transport
- Małgorzata FRANUS, PhD, DSc, Eng.
- Tomasz LIPECKI, PhD, DSc, Eng.
Management and Quality Sciences
- Magdalena RZEMIENIAK, PhD, DSc, Eng.
Environmental Engineering, Mining and Energetics
- prof. Marzenna DUDZIŃSKA, PhD, DSc, Eng.
- prof. Beata KOWALSKA, PhD, DSc, Eng.
- prof. Lucjan PAWŁOWSKI, PhD, DSc, Eng.
Automatics, Electronics and Electrical Engineering
- Grzegorz KOMARZYNIEC, PhD, DSc, Eng.
Information and Communication Technology
- Arkadiusz SYTA, PhD, DSc
- Zbigniew ŁAGODOWSKI, PhD, DSc
Architecture and Urban Planning
- arch. Natalia PRZESMYCKA, PhD, DSc, Eng.
Non-evaluated disciplines
- Halina RAROT, PhD, DSc
Centre of Scientific and Technical Information
- Head: Katarzyna WEINPER, PhD
LUT PH
- Karolina FAMULSKA-CIESIELSKA, PhD
- Magdalena CHOŁOJCZYK, PhD
- Katarzyna PEŁKA-SMĘTEK, MA Eng.
The appointment of the composition, functioning and scope of authority of the Scientific Council of the Lublin University of Technology Publishing House are described in detail in the Regulations, which are attached to Order No. R-52/2022 of the Rector of Lublin University of Technology dated May 16, 2022.
Schedules of the LUT PH Scientific Council meetings
| No. | Date | Topics addressed |
|---|---|---|
| 39. | 05.02.2026 | Approval of publication proposals submitted to the Publisher and appointment of reviewers for them Discussion on the importance of careful selection of reviewers for works submitted to the Publisher |
| 38. | 14.01.2026 | The Publishing Manager summarised the Publisher's achievements in the previous year. The Publishing Manager presented the publishing plans to be implemented in 2026. The Council approved that student materials submitted to the Publisher will be subject to a review process. |
| 37. | 03.12.2025 | Approval of publication proposals submitted to the Publisher and appointment of reviewers for them Discussion on the regulations for reviewing student materials |
| 36. | 22.10.2025 | The Council presented its position on plagiarism detected in one of the journals published by the Lublin University of Technology. |
| 35. | 25.09.2025 | Approval of a publication proposal submitted to the Publisher and appointment of reviewers for it Change in guidelines for reviewing student works and approval of a new cover design for the 'student materials' series |
| 34. | 10.07.2025 | Approval of publication proposals submitted to the Publisher and appointment of reviewers for them The Publishing Manager announced the addition of a section on sustainable development goals to the publication submission form The Council decided to create a separate layout for the 'student materials' series |
| 33. | 26.06.2025 | The Publishing Manager invited Council members to participate in the second edition of the conference 'Challenges of Contemporary Publishing' on 14-15 May 2026. Approval of publication proposals submitted to the Publisher and appointment of reviewers for them. |
| 32. | 08.05.2025 | The Publishing Manager announced the signing of a contract with a printing house Approval of publication proposals submitted to the Publisher and appointment of reviewers for them Discussion on the use of tools such as Deepl and Grammarly in the work of journal editors and the Publisher |
| 31. | 03.04.2025 | The Publishing Manager announced that an IT specialist had joined the Publisher to provide technical support for OJS. Approval of publication proposals submitted to the Publisher and appointment of reviewers for them. |
| 30. | 06.02.2025 | Approval of publication proposals submitted to the Publisher and appointment of reviewers for them. |
| 29. | 09.01.2025 | Approval of publication proposals submitted to the Publisher and appointment of reviewers for them. Rejection of the submission of a publication sent to the Publishing House, due to the fact that it does not fall into any of the categories of peer-reviewed publications provided for in the publishing policy of the Lublin University of Technology Publishing House. The Council decided to ask the author of the post-doctoral monograph to adapt her work to monographic standards. |
| 28. | 05.12.2024 | Approval of publication proposals submitted to the Publisher and appointment of reviewers for them. The Council decided to select more reviewers for interdisciplinary collective monographs (the number of reviewers will be adjusted according to the number of thematic sections). The Council decided to issue a request to the author of one of publications to apply the omitted review comments. |
| 27. | 07.11.2024 | Approval of publication proposals submitted to the Publisher and appointment of reviewers for them. The Council decided to establish one language in the monograph, which featured texts in both English and Polish. The Council has decided to establish series "Conference Monographs". |
| 26. | 30.09.2024 | Election of the Chairperson of the Council in the new tenure. Summary of the Council’s achievements in the 2022–2024 term. Approval of publication proposals submitted to the Publisher and appointment of reviewers for them. |
| 25. | 06.06.2024 | Approval of publication proposals submitted to the Publisher and appointment of reviewers for them. |
| 24. | 09.05.2024 | Approval of publication proposals submitted to the Publisher and appointment of reviewers for them. |
| 23. | 04.04.2024 | Approval of publication proposals submitted to the Publisher and appointment of reviewers for them. |
| 22. | 07.03.2024 | Approval of publication proposals submitted to the Publisher and appointment of reviewers for them. |
| 21. | 01.02.2024 | Acceptance of the textbook/script review form. Acceptance of the statement of the editor submitting a multi-author publication form. Selection of a new cover design for the publication of the Publisher. Approval of the publication proposal submitted to the Publisher and appointment of reviewers for it. |
| 20. | 11.01.2024 | Acceptance of the statement for single-author and multi-author publication. Approval of the proposal for publication submitted to the Publisher and appointment of reviewers for it. |
| 19. | 07.12.2023 | Discussion about statements on originality of the work. The acceptance of the publishing procedure for the need to re-review the work. Discussion of reports (the Publisher won't consider reports as publications and won't insert them into the Digital Library). Approval of publication proposals submitted to the Publisher and appointment of reviewers for them. |
| 18. | 15.11.2023 | As a result of the discussion on the procedure in case of the use of artificial intelligence in publications submitted to the Publisher, the Council decided to create a statement on the originality of the work. Approval of publication proposals submitted to the Publisher and appointment of reviewers for them. |
| 17. | 28.09.2023 | Approval of the publication proposal submitted to the Publisher and appointment of reviewers for it. Summary of the Publisher's work in recent month. |
| 16. | 29.06.2023 | Approval of the publication proposals submitted to the Publisher and appointment of reviewers for them. |
| 15. | 07.06.2023 | Voting to add supplementary sentences to the review process: "in the case of a post-doctoral monograph submitted for publication after two years after the dissertation defense, it is necessary to update the work and appoint two external reviewers", "the reviewer in the last five years preceding the preparation of the review should not undertake direct scientific cooperation with the author(s)" and "direct scientific cooperation with the author(s) is understood as: joint publications, grants, patents, reviews in doctoral and professorial chairs". Approval of the publication proposal submitted to the Publisher and appointment of reviewers for them. |
| 14. | 11.05.2023 | Approval of the publication proposal submitted to the Publisher and appointment of reviewers for it. Discussion about the procedure for submitting post-doctoral monographs and about acceptable connections between authors and reviewers. |
| 13. | 13.04.2023 | The head of the Publishing House informed about the revision of the publishing plan being carried out. Information about the Publisher's submission to the DOAB database and about publications to be submitted to the Web of Science Book Citation Index. Approval of publication proposals submitted to the Publishing House and appointment of reviewers for them. |
| 12. | 02.03.2023 | Publishing Manager informed that the Publishing House plans to start using an anti-plagiarism program to check publications. The Council agreed to look at the texts submitted to the Publishing House and provide opinions on them during the meetings. The Council agreed that information about the deadline for submitting publication proposals for the publishing plan will be sent to deans, secretariats and representatives of the scientific disciplines. Such information will also be on the Publishing House's website. Approval of new publication proposals and appointment of reviewers for them. |
| 11. | 02.02.2023 | Discussion about accepting textbooks from outside the competition into the publishing process Forwarding a request for titles that could be sent for indexing in the Web of Science Book Citation Index Discussion about publishing plans submitted to the LUT Publishing House Approval of the textbook publication proposal and appointment of reviewers for it Information about creation of the Publishing House's Scientific Council group on the Microsoft Teams platform |
| 10. | 12.01.2023 | Presentation of letters of nomination by the Vice Rector for Science to the new members of the LUT PH Scientific Council Presentation of changes in the textbook publishing process in connection with the Competition for the publication of an academic textbook or script Discussion about funding for publications whose co-authors are not employees of Lublin University of Technology Introduction of changes in the monograph publishing process: the publishing house can accept submissions of publication proposals only if the text of the publication is attached. Representatives of the disciplines will provide opinions on monographs submitted to the Publishing House Approval of new publication proposals and appointment of reviewers for them |
| 9. | 01.12.2022 | Approval of the review procedure for student monographs Approval of new publication proposals and appointment of reviewers for them |
| 8. | 03.11.2022 | Information on current activities of the Publishing House Approval of new publication proposals and appointment of reviewers for them Discussion of the review procedure for student monographs |
| 7. | 10.2022 | ---------------------------------- |
| 6. | 29.09.2022 | Approval of the draft of the title page to be used in the monographs of the publishing house Approval of new publication proposals and appointment of reviewers for them Information on the introduction of the publishing plan |
| 5. | 22.06.2022 | Introduction of the new Head of the LUT PH - Katarzyna Weinper, PhD Approval of new publication proposals and appointment of reviewers Approval of the review procedure for textbooks |
| 4. | 20.05.2022 | Consideration of current publishing applications Information on the titles of publications sent to the "Technikus 2022" competition Presentation of information about the planned conference "Challenges of Contemporary Publishing" |
| 3. | 26.04.2022 | Voting on approval of the publication review process Presentation of letters of nomination to members of the LUT PH Scientific Council |
| 2. | 23.03.2022 | Vote on adoption of the Council's Regulations Presentation and vote on the rules for funding reviews and payments for textbooks' authors Presentation of proposals for the publication review process |
| 1. | 10.03.2022 | Organizational meeting Election of the Head of the Council Discussion on the draft regulations of the Council |
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