• Ensuring the development of the journal in the national and international sense.
• Managing processes to improve the quality of published studies
• Conducting processes to apply ethical rules for all shareholders of the journal.
• Updating publishing and ethical policies with the purpose of bringing a contribution to the development of the journal.
• Organizing and updating the website of the journal.

• Authors are not to submit their studies to application processes of multiple journals, and also they should not submit any published study to the OSEJ. Moreover, any under-review study submitted to another journal is not to be submitted to OSEJ.
• The authors are responsible for the contents and appendices (pictures, drawings, maps, documents, etc.) included in the articles submitted to OSEJ. It is assumed that the authors submitting their manuscripts have accepted this responsibility. They confirm that their articles' content does not bind the owner, editor, co-editors, or advisory board members of OSEJ.
• No contract is required for the transfer of copyright from authors. It is regarded that the authors of the manuscripts that are submitted and accepted after the reviewing process transfer all copyrights to OSEJ. The authors are included in the publication process by agreeing to hand over all copyrights to OSEJ. Manuscripts may not be published elsewhere without written permission from the OSEJ editor.
• For translated works, the translator should receive permission from the author(s) of the relevant article. Copyright costs for translated articles are to be covered by the translator/author.
• OSEJ does not charge any article submission, editorial processing, article publication (page or color), or subscription charges.
• All authors who contributed to the conduct of the research including any part of the research process should be listed as an author. Any process such as adding-removing an author, or changing the order of authors cannot be demanded by a study under review process. Names that do not contribute to the study are not to be specified as authors. Conflicts of interest or relationships must be explained (if available). Authors’ names and surnames, affiliations, e-mail addresses, and ORCIDs must be clearly stated in the manuscript if their manuscript is accepted and approved.
• The corresponding author is responsible for the whole process and content of the manuscript and acting on behalf of all co-authors in responding to queries from all sources post-publication.
• Authors must declare that their articles are original and have not been published previously or are not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
• Raw materials of the submitted article(s) can be requested within the framework of evaluation processes. Authors must submit the requested data and information to editorial and science boards.
• Authors have the right to request a withdrawal, retraction, or correction(s) of their articles at any time before they are published. However, they can only request retractions or corrections of their articles within five days after their article is published in an issue.

Also, the author(s) have rights. Author(s) can;

• detect the reviewers to whom the studies should not be sent due to conflict of interest and/or other ethical reasons,.
• withdraw their unpublished study during the review process,
• oppose reviewer reports and editor decisions,
• demand erratum for information errors or problem areas in the given study to be published in the first issue due to errors in fact during the publication process.

• Reviewers are expected to read the publishing principles of the OSEJ.
• Studies submitted to the OSEJ are reviewed by at least two reviewers in the related field. Ideas of the editor or a third reviewer are asked in case of equity between negative and positive views on the article during reviewing process.
• A double-blind review process has been adopted in the OSEJ, authors, and reviewers are not aware of each other’s identity. Reviewers should refuse to review when they realize they cannot be objective. Reviewers should also refuse to review in case of a conflict of interest and inform the editor about it.
• Reviewers should accept to review only the studies in their specialty fields, and not accept reviewing the manuscript in the field in which they are not experts even for have information about the topic of the given article. Reviewers should make sure that the review is related to the content of any given manuscript.
• Reviewers should complete the review process in a certain period of time, and review on unbiased and confidential terms.
• Reviewers should be reviewing the manuscript in constructive and polite language, and not comment on personal views such as hospitality, insult, and reflation.
• Reviewers should pay attention not to bring the effect of religion, race, sex, political views, and so on into the review process.
  

• The manuscripts submitted to OSEJ must not have been previously published or submitted to be published in any printed/digital publications. The publication process shall be immediately canceled if it is found that the manuscripts submitted to OSEJ and taken in the reviewing process have been submitted to another publisher and/or have been previously published in the same or similar format.
• OSEJ editorial team takes serious measures to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred, and thus they do not encourage such misconduct, or knowingly allow such misconduct to take place.
• If the OSEJ editorial team identifies or has grounds for suspecting research misconduct, they will deal with allegations appropriately. The OSEJ editorial team is always willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when needed.
• Authors can only request retractions or corrections of their articles within five days after their article is published in an issue.
• OSEJ never tolerates plagiarism and self-plagiarism and has the right to check all submissions using tools such as Turnitin and Ithenticate. OSEJ accepts manuscripts up to a maximum similarity rate of 20%. Except for exceptional cases, this limit cannot be exceeded, and any submitted article that has a higher rate of similarity than mentioned here will be rejected.
• All authors must comply with both national and international academic, and scientific ethical rules.
• The authors have unilateral responsibility for the issues such as citations and plagiarism within the framework of the relevant laws.
• In the manuscripts prepared from the master’s or doctoral theses, the authors must state that the manuscript is prepared from such a study. Otherwise, it is considered within the frame of plagiarism. In the name order, the name of the owner of the thesis is written first; the supervisor and other authors cannot be written before the owner of the thesis. The contribution of authors other than the owner of the thesis and the supervisor is stated in the manuscript.
  

License Policy
All the articles published on the OSEJ website are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC-SA). Because of its open-access policy, OSEJ does not accept others to commercially share the articles that it publishes.

Plagiarism Detection
Papers submitted to OSEJ will be screened for plagiarism using iThenticate or Turnitin plagiarism detection tools. OSEJ will immediately reject papers leading to plagiarism or self-plagiarism.

             

Publication Fee
OSEJ is a completely free journal. There is no author’s submission fee or another publication-related fee since every cost for the publication process is supported by the publisher; therefore, it is an open-access journal.