Journal Policy
Conditions of publication manuscript
The journal "Bulletin of KazNPU named after Abai Series "Special Pedagogy", is published at intervals 4 times a year within the established deadlines for the publication of issues of the journal.
For publication in the journal "Bulletin of KazNPU named after Abai Series "Special Pedagogy", articles not previously published by the author(s) in Kazakh, Russian or English are accepted, which correspond to the thematic areas of the journal and are designed strictly according to the requirements of the manuscript design.
The scientific articles of the journal must contain an abstract, keywords and information about the authors, including the following information – surnames, affiliations, country name, and addresses of the author(s) of the publication and the sign (*) indicates the author for correspondence.
The manuscript of a scientific article is submitted to the editorial board by the author for correspondence at least two months before the publication of the next issue of the journal.
The manuscript must be uploaded via the electronic platform by the author for correspondence, indicating all the published articles and its authors. An article by the same author may be published in the journal no more than once during a calendar year.
Authors must submit to the editorial office an original work that has not been previously published in other publications. The authors are responsible for the reliability, novelty, evidence-based results of the study.
At the stages of work with the manuscript, communication between the editorial board, the author for correspondence and reviewers is carried out via the OJS electronic (online) platform, and in exceptional cases – via e-mail.
The Editorial team of the journal reviews the manuscripts received from the author/authors, organizes their review and makes a decision on publication or refusal to publish within three months from the date of receipt of the manuscript via an electronic platform.
The author(s) of the manuscript approved for publication in the journal are obliged to pay for publication in accordance with the approved price list of the cost of publication in scientific journals of KazNPU named after Abai Seria. The receipt of payment for the publication in pdf format is sent by the author(s) to the e-mail address of the editorial office of the journal.
Borrowing and plagiarism
Editorial Team "Bulletin of KazNPU named after Abai Series "Special Pedagogy", when reviewing a manuscript for compliance with formal requirements (manuscript design) it also checks for the presence of a borrowed text in the manuscript through a plagiarism check system.
Only original manuscripts and/or those manuscripts in which, according to the results of verification through the anti-plagiarism system, the originality is more than 80% are sent for further review. If the manuscript does not meet the design requirements of the journal and is not an original work based on the results of a plagiarism check, then the manuscript is returned to the author for correspondence to make appropriate changes and re-send the manuscript for consideration by the editorial board via the electronic platform of the journal.
Review Process
Manuscripts submitted to the editorial office of the journal and meeting the formal requirements, design requirements and the indicator of originality on the basis of verification through the plagiarism verification system are necessarily sent for further review.
The journal "Bulletin of KazNPU named after Abai Series "Special Pedagogy" uses "two-way-blind" peer review, carried out by at least two scientists with the degree of Candidate of Sciences, Doctor of Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and scientific specialization on the subject of the reviewed manuscript.
The review is conducted confidentially: the manuscript of the article is sent to the reviewers via the electronic platform of the journal without specifying data about the authors. Reviewers are required to make a clear, objective and reasoned assessment of the compliance of the manuscript with the main scientific criteria, as well as its quality and significance.
After receiving the conclusions from the reviewers, the responsible editor sends them to the author for correspondence without specifying the reviewers' data, for responding to comments, making appropriate changes and resending the manuscript via an electronic platform.
After responding to all comments, making changes to the manuscript to eliminate the comments of reviewers and re-sending it to the editorial office of the journal, the scientific editor sends all materials to the reviewer(s) for re-reviewing.
The manuscript, for which there are positive conclusions from two reviewers and the responsible editor, is recommended for publication in the journal "Bulletin of KazNPU named after Abai Series "Special Pedagogy" according to the order of their acceptance for publication.
The materials of articles rejected by the editorial team based on the results of reviewing are not used by the editorial board for its own purposes.
The term of review is appointed by the editor responsible for the article and the term of review of the manuscript by reviewers is no more than three months from the date of sending the material to reviewers.
Free access policy and archiving
The journal "Bulletin of KazNPU named after Abai Series "Special Pedagogy" provides open access to its content on the official website of the journal. This provides wider information access to the journal on the scale of the global scientific community.
The journal's website also provides the necessary information for authors and readers about the journal's activities: publication conditions, rules for registration and submission of manuscripts to the journal, the procedure for forming the journal and reviewing manuscripts, publication ethics, information about the editorial board, contact details of the scientific editor and executive secretary.
Readers and authors can get acquainted with electronic versions of the current issue of the journal and archives for previous periods.
Copyright and Licensing
The authors of the articles of the journal "Bulletin of KazNPU named after Abai Series "Special Pedagogy" reserve the author's right to scientific work and transfer to the journal the right of first publication together with the work.
The authorship of the manuscript belongs to those researchers who participated directly in the creation of the manuscript, in the formation of the idea, in writing the article, interpreting the results and made a significant contribution to obtaining scientific results.
The authors retain the right to distribute their article in other sources (for example, in the institutional archive, social networks, etc.) with a mandatory link to its original publication in this journal.