Archiving Policy

This policy sets out the ways in which KUBR journal authors can self-archive versions of their work, and how the journal is preserved at the library.

SOMBA Seminar Library

KUBR publications are deposited in and available from archives stored in SOMBA Seminar Library, Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh. To guarantee long-term digital preservation, content published in KUBR is deposited in the SOMBA archives.

Self-archiving Policy

By signing the Copyright Transfer Statement you still retain substantial rights, such as self-archiving:

Author(s) are permitted to self-archive a pre-print and an author’s accepted manuscript version of their Article.

  1. A preprint is the author’s version of the Article before peer-review has taken place (“Pre-Print”). Prior to acceptance for publication, Author(s) retain the right to make a Pre-Print of their Article available on any of the following: their own personal, self-maintained website; a legally compliant pre-print server such as but not limited to arXiv and bioRxiv. Once the Article has been published, the Author(s) should update the acknowledgment and provide a link to the definitive version on the publisher’s website: “This is a pre-print of an article published in [insert journal title]. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/[insert DOI]”.
  2. An Author’s Accepted Manuscript (AAM) is the version accepted for publication in a journal following peer review but prior to copyediting and typesetting that can be made available under the following conditions:
    1. Author(s) retain the right to make an AAM of their Article available on their own personal, self-maintained website immediately on acceptance,
    2. Author(s) retain the right to make an AAM of their Article available for public release on any of the following 12 months after first publication (“Embargo Period”): their employer’s internal website; their institutional and/or funder repositories. AAMs may also be deposited in such repositories immediately on acceptance, provided that they are not made publicly available until after the Embargo Period.

An acknowledgment in the following form should be included, together with a link to the published version on the publisher’s website: “This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in [insert journal title]. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/[insert DOI]”.

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The manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision is provided to the authors approximately within a month after submission and acceptance to publication is undertaken in 7 days.