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Editorial policy and ethics of the scholarly journal Human Studies: Collection of Articles of Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University. Series “Pedagogy” is grounded on the recommendations of Committee on Publications Ethics (COPE), best practice of Ukrainian and international academic societies, institutions and editorial boards of scientific periodicals, and also on the Ethic Standards of Ukrainian Scientists. Scientists should be confident of reliability and soundness of their own researches and their colleagues’, as well. Unfortunately, this situation has not been flawless recently, as now and then one can face the ethics violations, which in an undermining factor for people’ trust to science and those of the academic world. To prevent such a situation in Ukraine, every researcher should be wholly concern to follow the ethic requirements and be fully aware of the public opinion forming he is responsible for.

Ethical Obligations of Authors

• An author presents a concise and accurate report of their research and an objective discussion of its significance.
• A primary research report should contain sufficient detail and reference to public sources of information to permit the author’s peers to repeat the work.
• An author should cite those publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work and that will guide the reader quickly to the earlier work that is essential for understanding the present investigation.
• Fragmentation of research reports must be avoided.
• It is improper for an author to submit manuscripts describing essentially the same research to more than one journal of primary publication, unless it is a resubmission of a manuscript rejected for or withdrawn from publication.
• All sources should be disclosed, and if a significant amount of other people’s material is to be used, permission must be sought by the author in accordance with copyright law. An author should not use privately obtained information (for example information obtained through conversation), or information obtained through the performance of a confidential service (for example the refereeing of a manuscript), without permission from the person from whom the information originated.
• In submitting a manuscript for publication, an author should inform the editor of related manuscripts that the author has under editorial consideration or in press.
• An author should identify the source of all information quoted or offered, except that which is common knowledge. Information obtained privately, as in conversation, correspondence, or discussion with third parties, should not be used or reported in the author’s work.
• At no time is personal criticism ever considered to be appropriate in a written piece of work.
• To give due acknowledgement to all workers contributing to the work. Those who have contributed significantly to the research should be listed as co-authors. On submission of the manuscript, the corresponding author attests to the fact that those named as co-authors have agreed to its submission for publication and accepts the responsibility for having properly included all (and only) co-authors. Any change in authorship after initial submission must be approved by all authors and justified to the Editor.
• The authors should reveal to the editor any potential conflict of interest that might be affected by publication of the results contained in a manuscript.

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This is a publication agreement and copyright license (“Agreement”) regarding a written or contribution to the manuscript currently entitled

The parties to this Agreement are:

(individually, or if more than one author, collectively, “Author”)

and Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University, publisher and copyright owner of the “Human Studies:    ” in the person of Rector Mrs. Skotna N.V. (“Publisher”).

1. LICENSE OF COPYRIGHT

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b. The Publisher agrees and acknowledges that the Publisher will not receive any payment from the Author for publication by the Publisher.

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