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Online Science Education Journal, OSEJ, focuses on serving individuals, especially future generations, to acquire knowledge and skills, and adopts them as its vision. In this sense, OSEJ sees it as its mission to contribute to the development of science education activities in all levels and subject areas from pre-school to higher education and to serve all stakeholders.

OSEJ provides all kinds of scientific studies in all areas of science education.

It is obligatory that the manuscript to be submitted for publication has to be appropriate in accordance with the manuscript rules and publication conditions of our journal.

Research articles that discuss and analyze the topics from different perspectives, teaching application examples, and review studies are given priority. However, the book review that is thought to contribute to our journal's stakeholders in the field of science education, and studies on the introduction of education and didactic theories may also be published.

The evaluation process of the manuscripts sent to our journal starts and is completed electronically. The manuscript submitted by the author(s) is reviewed firstly by the editorial board in terms of appropriateness of content to the OSEJ. After this, the journal editor will appoint two reviewers with a doctorate degree. Once the two referees have issued a decision for publication as positively, the article has prepared in terms of the rules of writing and quotes of OSEJ and investigated the appropriateness of plagiarism and so on (this review process does not change the responsibility of the author).

Yazım Kuralları

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YAZIM KURALLARI ve YAYIN KOŞULLARI

Başlık ve Yazar Bilgileri

· Başlık: 14 punto, Times New Roman, kalın, her kelimenin sadece ilk harfi büyük harfle, ortalanmış olarak yazılmalıdır.

· Yazar İsimleri: 10 punto, Times New Roman, kalın, alt alta yazılmalıdır. Yazar isimlerinden sonra “,” konularak kurum bilgisi (italik) ve yine “,” konularak, e-posta adresi (italik) yazılmalıdır.

Özetler

· Özet: 10 punto, Times New Roman olmalıdır. “Abstract” kelimesi ilk harfi büyük, sola yaslı yazılmalıdır. Bu bölüm araştırmanın amacı, yöntemi, bulguları, sonuç ve önerilerini kapsayacak şekilde 100-250 kelime arasında olmalıdır. Abstract içerisinde kaynak verilmemelidir.

· Keywords: 10 punto, Times New Roman olmalıdır. Çalışmayı betimleyen 3-5 anahtar kelime olmalıdır.

Bölümler ve Alt Bölümler

Tüm metnin içeriği 12 punto, Times New Roman, tek satır aralıklı, iki yana yaslı yazılmalıdır. Paragraflar 1 tab girinti ile başlamalı, paragraflar arası boşluk içermemelidir. Ana bölüm başlıkları ortalı, 12 punto, kalın ve büyük harfle yazılmalıdır. Alt bölüm başlıkları (İkinci düzey başlıklar) sola yaslı, ilk harfleri büyük, 12 punto ve kalın olarak yazılmalıdır. Üçüncü düzey başlıklar ise sola yaslı, sadece ilk kelimenin ilk harfi büyük olacak biçimde, 12 punto, kalın ve italik yazılmalıdır. İngilizce özetin dil bilgisi hatası içermemesi için alanda uzmanı tarafından kontrolüne özen gösterilmelidir.

Makalenin bölümleri genel olarak şu başlıkları içermelidir:

GİRİŞ

YÖNTEM

Araştırmanın Modeli

Çalışma Grubu

Veri Toplama Araçları

Verilerin Analizi

BULGULAR

TARTIŞMA, SONUÇ VE ÖNERİLER

KAYNAKLAR

EXTENDED ABSTRACT

Purpose and Significance

Methodology

Results

Discussion and Conclusion

Tablo: Tablo ismi tablonun üstünde, sola dayalı olarak yazılmalıdır. “Tablo 1.” kalın olarak belirtilmeli, tablo adı ise italik yazılmalıdır. Tablo içeriği 10 punto olarak hazırlanmalı ve düzenlenmesinde APA dikkate alınmalıdır (Dikey çizgiler içermemeli ve önemli başlıklar yatay çizgilerle ayrılmalıdır).

Şekil: Şekil ismi şeklin altında bulunmalıdır. “Şekil 1.” kalın olarak yazılmalı, şekil ismi ise italik olarak belirtilmelidir.

Kaynakların Belirtilmesi

1. Metin İçerisinde

Metin içinde uygun yerde yazarın soyadı ve arkasından eserin yayın yılı verilir:

1.1. Tek Yazarlı

“... (Nelson, 1976)”; “Nelson’a (1976) göre ...”; “Nelson (1976) ...”

Ayrıca alıntılar için mutlaka sayfa numarası verilmelidir. Bu durumda sayfa için “s.” ve bölüm için “böl.” kullanılır.

Örnek: (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2005, s. 10)

(Shimamura, 1989, böl. 3)

1.2. İki Yazarlı

Metin içinde birden fazla yazarlı bir esere gönderme yapılırken yazar isimleri arasında “ve” bağlacını kullanılır. Ayraç içinde, tablolarda, şekil açıklamalarında ve kaynakçada yazar isimlerini “ve imiyle (&)” bağlanır.

”... (Mather & Knight, 2006).”; “Mather ve Knight (2006) ...”; “Mather ve Knight’a (2006) göre...”

1.3. Üç, Dört, Beş Yazarlı

“... (Charles, Mather, & Carstensen, 2003).”; “Charles, Mather, ve Carstensen (2003) ...”; “Charles, Mather, ve Carstensen’ye (2003) göre...”

Aynı çalışmaya ikinci kez gönderme yapmak gerekiyorsa, sadece ilk yazarın soyadı yazılıp arkasından “ve diğerleri” anlamında “vd.” ifadesi kullanılır.

Örnek: “Charles vd. (2003)”

1.4. Altı ve/veya Daha Fazla Yazarlı

Sadece ilk yazarın soyadını yazıp arkasından vd. (italik olmamalı) yazılır.

Örnek: “Rosler vd. (2005)”

1.5. Yazar Olarak Grup İsimleri

Yazar olarak belirtilen grup isimleri (öm. kuruluşlar, dernekler, devlet daireleri ve çalışma grupları) metin içinde kaynak gösterilirken her seferinde kısaltılmadan yazılmalıdır. Grup şeklinde kimi yazarların isimleri, kaynağa ilk kez gönderme yapılırken kısaltılmadan yazılır, daha sonra aynı kaynağa gönderme yapılırken kısaltılır.

İsim çok uzunsa ve metin içerisinde yer kaplıyorsa, eğer kısaltma sıklıkla biliniyor ya da kolayca anlaşılabiliyorsa, ikinci ve sonraki göndermelerde kısaltma kullanılabilir. İsim kısaysa ya da kısaltma kolay anlaşılmıyorsa, ismin her geçişinde kısaltma yazılmalıdır.

Örnek:

İsim 1: National Institute of Mental Health (1999)

Metinde kaynağa ilk göndermede: (National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH], 1999)

Metinde kaynağa yapılan daha sonraki göndermelerde: (NIMH, 1999)

İsim 2: University of Pittsburgh (1993)

Metin içinde kaynağa yapılan tüm göndermelerde: (University of Pittsburgh, 1993)

1.6. Aynı Yazara Ait Birden Fazla Eseri Belirme

1.6.1. Farklı Yıllarda Basılan Eserler

Aynı yazar(lar) tarafından yazılmış iki ya da daha fazla esere gönderme yaparken yazar soyadları bir kez yazılır ve baskı yılları göz önünde bulundurulur. Şu an baskıda olan eserlere yapılacak göndermeler en sona bırakılır.

Örnek: (Gogel, 1990, 2006, baskıda)

1.6.2. Aynı Yıl İçerisinde Basılan Eserler

Aynı yazar(lar) tarafından aynı yılda basılmış eserlere gönderme yaparken yıl gösterilip ardından a, b, c, ... şeklinde harflendirme kullanılır. Kaynakça kısmında da bu harflendirme belirtilir.

Örnek: Birçok çalışmada (Derryberry & Reed, 2005a, 2005b, baskıda-a; Rothbart, 2003a, 2003b)

1.7. Aynı Ayraç İçerisinde Farklı Yazarların Eserlerini Belirtme

Aynı ayraç içinde farklı yazarların eserleri belirtilirken alfabetik sıraya göre yazarların soyadları sıralanarak verilir ve araya noktalı virgül koyulur.

Örnek: Birçok çalışmada (Miller, 1999; Shafranske & Mahoney, 1998)

1.8. İkincil Kaynaktan Alıntı

Özgün çalışmanın baskısı yoksa ya da İngilizce olarak ulaşılamıyorsa, metin içerisinde orijinal eserin ismi verilip, ikinci kaynağa gönderme yapılır.

Örnek: Allport’un günlüğünden Nicholson’un eserinde aktarım yapılmışsa ve gönderme yapılan çalışma okunmadıysa, metin içerisinde “Allport'un günlüğü (as cited in Nicholson, 2003)” şeklinde belirtilmelidir.

2. Kaynakça Bölümünde

Makalenin sonunda, varsa ek(ler)den önce, yazar veya kurum ismine ilişkin kaynaklar ilk yazarın soyadının baş harfi ve kurumların isimleri göz önünde bulundurularak, alfabetik bir düzen içerisinde verilmelidir.

· Kaynaklar 10 punto ile aralık bırakılmadan ardı ardına yazılmalıdır.

· Süreli yayın başlık ve alt başlıkların sadece ilk kelimelerine ve varsa özel isimleri büyük harfle başlamalıdır.

· Süreli yayın başlığı veya noktalama işaretleri kesinlikle italik yazılmamalıdır.

· Sayfa sayısı verilirken “s.32-50” olarak değil “32-50” olarak gösterilmelidir.

· Kaynakçada yer alan kaynakların ikinci satırları 1,5 cm içeriden başlanabilir.

Örnek Kaynaklar

2.1. Tek Yazarlı Makale

Genel referans düzeni:

Yazar, A. A., (yıl). Makalenin başlığı. Dergi adı, Cilt(Sayı), sayfa aralığı.

Anderson, A. K. (2005). Affective influences on the attentional dynamics supporting awareness. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 154, 258-281

2.2. İki Yazarlı Makale

Light, M. A, & Light, I. H. (2008). The geographic expansion of Mexican immigration in the United States and its implications for local law enforcement. Law Enforcement Executive Forum Journal, 8(1), 73-82.

2.3. Üç-Altı Yazarlı Makale

Carretie, L. Hinojosa, J. A, Martin-Loeches, M., Mecado, F., & Tapia, M. (2004). Automatic attention to emotional stimuli: Neural correlates. Human Brain Mapping, 22, 290-299.

2.4. Basımda Olan Dergi Makaleleri

Briscoe, R. (in press). Egocentric spatial representation in action and perception. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Retrieved from http://cogprints.org/5780/1/ECSRAP.F07.pdf

2.5. Kitaplar

2.5.1. Tek Yazarlı Kitap

Yazar, A. A. (yıl). Kitabın ismi. Yayın yeri: Yayın evi.

Çepni, S. (2012). Araştırma ve proje çalışmalarına giriş. Trabzon: Celepler Matbaacılık.

2.5.2. Çeviri Kitap

Jenson, E. (2006). Beyin uyumlu öğrenme (A. Doğanay, Çev.). Adana: Nobel Yayınevi. (Orijinal baskı, 1999).

2.5.3. Editörlü Bir Kitapta Yer Alan Makale veya Bölümler

Yücel, C. ve Gülveren, H. (2006). Sınıfta öğrencilerin motivasyonu. M. Şişman ve S. Turan (Ed.), Sınıf yönetimi içinde (s. 74-88). Ankara: Pegema.

2.6. İndirilmiş Çalışmalar

MEB, (2005). PISA 2003 projesi: Ulusal nihai rapor. http://earged.meb.gov.tr/pisa/dokuman/2003/ rapor/PISA_RAPOR_2003.pdf adresinden 9 Temmuz 2009 tarihinde indirilmiştir.

2.7. Toplantı/Sempozyum/Kongre/Konferans Bildirileri

2.7.1. Sunulmuş Çalışmalar

Genel referans düzeni:

Yazar, A. A., Yazar, B. B., Yazar, C. C., & Yazar, D. D. (Yıl, Ay). Çalışmanın adı. E. E. Chairperson (Oturum Başkanı) içinde, Sempozyumun adı. Sempozyum düzenleme kurulu ismi, Yer.

Muellbauer, J. (2007, September). Housing, credit, and consumer expenditure. In S. C. Ludvigson (Chair), Housing and consumer behavior. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, WY.

2.7.2. Bildiri Kitabında Yer Alan Çalışmalar

Herculano-Houzel, S., Collins, C. E., Wong, P., Kaas, J. H., & Lent, R. (2008). The basic nonuniformity of the cerebral cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105, 12593-12598. doi: 1 0.1 073/pnas.08054171 05

2.8. Tezler

· Kopyası kaynak olarak kullanılan yüksek lisans ve doktora tezleri için genel referans düzeni:

Yazar, A. A. (yıl). Doktora ya da yüksek lisans tezinin başlığı (Doktora tezi/Master tezi). Ulaşılan veri tabanı, DAI numarası.

· Yayınlanmamış tezler için genel referans düzeni:

Yazar, A. A. (yıl). Doktora ya da yüksek lisans tezinin başlığı (Yayınlanmamış Doktora tezi/Master tezi). Kurum İsmi, Yer.

Güneş, G. (2010). Öğretmen adaylarının temel astronomi konularında bilgi seviyeleri ile bilimin doğası ve astronomi öz yeterlilikleri arasındaki ilişkinin incelenmesi (Yayınlanmamış yüksek lisans tezi). Çukurova Üniversitesi, Adana.

Etik İlkeler ve Yayın Politikası

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Online Science Education Journal (OSEJ) is published once every 6 months, thus twice a year (June and December) in Kastamonu, TURKIYE. OSEJ is a peer-reviewed journal, which includes translated works, book reviews, and original research and review articles reporting qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-method studies in the field of science education. Articles can be submitted in Turkish or English language. As of 2020, only English articles are considered.

At OSEJ, it attached high importance to the integrity of our academic content, publication ethics, and process as well as maintaining authors’ research integrity. To this end, A number of ethical policies have been developed by the editorial team and the editorial board to ensure the impartiality and ethics of the work to be published in the OSEJ. It is also best to follow the guidelines and resources provided by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) to reach and maintain international publication standards by the editorial office. Here, it is outlined basic principles that we apply to our journal, which we believe will be useful for researchers and authors who wish to publish their articles in our journal.

Editorial Board and Editorial Process

OSEJ works with experts in the context of science education. Manuscripts that are submitted for evaluation go under initial screening for compliance with our publication ethics and malpractice statement under the supervision of the Chief Editor. Reviewers are appointed for the manuscripts that are approved by the Editorial Board after the preliminary examination regarding content. The manuscripts that are not approved by the Editorial Board shall be rejected. Each article is sent to two reviewers. If one of the reviewer’s reports is negative, the manuscript is sent to the third reviewer. In accordance with the reviewers’ reports, it is decided that the manuscript should be published, revised, or rejected. The authors are notified of this decision.

In case of corrections given to the manuscript, the corrections must be made within the period specified by the Editorial Board and sent to the Board. The manuscripts that are not revised in time shall be rejected. All submitted manuscripts must be prepared in accordance with OSEJ manuscript guidelines. The manuscripts that are considered inadequate in terms of language, regardless of content, are sent back or rejected. Prior to their submission, authors are advised to have their manuscripts proofread.

Either referee(s) nor author(s) do not know the personal information of each other. All this privacy policy is under the responsibility of the editing office. OSEJ editorial team never discriminates against authors or peer reviewers based on personal characteristics or identity. If OSEJ editorial team identifies malpractice in the manuscripts submitted or articles published, the editorial board will deal with the issue immediately and can take action including withdrawal, retraction, or correction.

The editorial team of OSEJ should hold the following ethical responsibilities that are based on the guides "COPE Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" and "COPE Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors" published as Open Access by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

The editors have the following roles and responsibilities:

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 and Authors’ (Ethical) Responsibilities

For the authors, OSEJ, recommends applying the following principles before they submit their manuscripts, and assumes that the authors accept the principles.

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.

Referees’ (Ethical) Responsibilities

For reviewers, OSEJ expects to review articles according to the following principles.

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.

Publication Ethics

OSEJ brings the following cases to the attention of the authors.

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.

Open Access Policy

OSEJ is a fully open-access journal and it provides free and unlimited access to the articles that it publishes without any form of restriction, subscription, or requirement. Thus, OSEJ lets researchers remix, adapt, and build upon the articles published on its website non-commercially, as long as they credit OSEJ and license their new work under identical terms.

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.

Publication Process

Blind Refereeing
In the review process of the articles, OSEJ makes use of double blind refereeing method, and the identity of authors and referees are concealed.

Initial Review Process
The articles submitted to the OSEJ are first subject to preliminary review of writing rules and journal template suitability by the Secretariat, and then forwarded to the Editor-in-chief with the purpose of referee assignment. If the submitted articles are unsuitable in terms of writing rules, originality, and accordance with the publication principles, it is returned to their author without a referee review. In the preliminary review, the editors inspect the introduction, literature review, method, findings, results, assessment, and discussion sections of the articles with respect to suitability with the publication principles and content of the journal. The articles which are found to be eligible are taken under referee review.

Referee Review Process
The articles are sent to the referees according to the content and referee speciality. The article which is found to be eligible by the editors is forwarded to at least two referees for review along with a review form. The referees are given 30 days for the review. It is obligatory to fill out the "Revision Template” which is prepared by the referees or the editors containing revisions within 30 days. The referees may decide on the suitability by inspecting the readjustments as well as requesting multiple revisions.
Many factors take role in the selection of referee. Experience, suitability of field, past experiences between the editor and referee are the determining factors. Author(s) may request to exclude certain referees for the reason of conflict of interests.

Review Results
The feedback received from the referees is examined by the editors within two weeks at the latest. A new referee may be assigned following the review process; in addition, there may be an approval, revision or rejection decision.

How Long Is The Publication Process?
It is anticipated that the evaluation process of the articles submitted to OSEJ concludes in approximately 2 months, if everything right. However, this period of time may extend depending on revision requests, duration of the revisions, and re-evaluation of the articles.

Revision Directions and Uploading Guide
At OSEJ, in review process, one or more revisions may be requested by the editors and/or referees for the articles. The authors are obligated to apply the requested revisions. The authors should make the revisions by using “Track changes” feature or by using the red colour on the original document. The authors should upload revised document with track changes and the prepared by using the revision template.

Post-Acceptance
At OSEJ, the articles approved after review are gone through; plagiarism re-inspection, reference list organizing, citation control, layout and typesetting, respectively.

Archiving

OSEJ uses DergiPark hosting services and an editorial workflow management system provided by TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM. DergiPark system saves each document and manuscript uploaded to the system electronically. In the event that OSEJ starts to use a different hosting service and an editorial workflow management system, all the backups will be transferred to that system, and access to the new website will be preserved.

Ownership and Management

OSEJ is published by Prof. Dr. Mehmet Altan KURNAZ, who owns the journal and is a science education researcher at Kastamonu University in Kastamonu/Turkey. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Altan KURNAZ, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hafife Bozdemir Yüzbaşıoğlu, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ebru Ezberci Çevik, Assist. Prof. Dr. B. Deniz Altunoğlu act as the publishing supervisor for all the management and editorial processes.

For more detailed information about the Management Board and Editorial Board, please visit the related pages of the journal.

The Website

OSEJ is hosted, managed, and published electronically on https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/ofed. On this website, all stakeholders can reach the archive of previous issues, and find out other useful information regarding the journal.

OSEJ editorial team does its best to ensure high ethical and professional standards. They also do their best to keep the website up-to-date.

Publishing Schedule

OSEJ is an electronic academic journal published in June and December, twice a year.

Name of the Journal

Online Science Education Journal (Online Fen Eğitimi Dergisi, in Turkish), OSEJ, is published with e-ISSN: 2548-0065.

Ücret Politikası

Open Access Policy

Open access to information benefits the humanity as it improves the global value of information, and thus, Online Science Education Journal adopts open access policy.

All articles published in Online Science Education Journal are licensed with "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License". This license entitles all parties to copy, share and redistribute all the articles, data sets, figures and supplementary files published in this journal in data mining, search engines, web sites, blogs and other digital platforms under the condition of providing references. Open access is an approach that eases the interdisciplinary communication and encourages cooperation among different disciplines. Online Science Education Journal, therefore, contributes to its own field by providing more access to its articles and a more transparent review process.

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