Policy of the journal

The conditions of publishing the manuscript

Journal “KazNU Bulletin.  Philology Series” is published 4 times a year in online (electronic) format in the following terms: the first issue is published until March 20 of the current year, the second issue - until June 20, the third issue - until September 20, and the fourth issue – until December 20.

For publication in the journal “KazNU Bulletin.  Philology Series” accepts articles in Kazakh, Russian or English languages which have not been published by the author (s) before, and which correspond to the journal's thematic areas and are designed strictly according to the requirements of the manuscript design.

The manuscript of a scientific article is submitted to the editorial board by the author for correspondence (selected from the author's team of the manuscript if there are 2 or more co-authors) at least two months before the next issue of the journal is published. For publication in the journal, manuscripts with a volume (excluding the title, information about the authors, annotation, keywords, bibliography) of at least 3,000 words and no more than 7,000 words are accepted.

The manuscript should be uploaded by the author via the electronic platform for correspondence with all published articles and their authors. An article by the same author (prepared individually or in collaboration) can be published in the journal no more than once during a calendar year.

Authors must submit to the editorial board an original work that has not previously been published in other publications (in print, electronic, and other open sources). The authors are responsible for the reliability, novelty, and evidence-based nature of the research results. At the stage of reviewing the manuscript by the editorial board and reviewers of the journal “KazNU Bulletin.  Philology Series”, as well as after its publication, the authors undertake not to submit this manuscript for consideration for publication in another publication.

At the stages of working 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 board 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 two months from the date of receipt of the manuscript via the electronic platform.

The author(s) of the manuscript approved for publication in the journal must pay for the publication in accordance with the approved price list of the cost of publication in scientific journals of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. A receipt for payment for publication in pdf format is sent by the author (s) to the e-mail address of the journal's editorial office.

Borrowing and plagiarism

Editorial board “KazNU Bulletin.  Philology Series” when reviewing a manuscript for compliance with formal requirements (manuscript design) also check the presence of borrowed text in the manuscript by means of a plagiarism check system, access to which is provided by a University subscription or on the basis of a national subscription.

Only original manuscripts and / or those that have been checked by the anti-plagiarism system for more than 75% originality are sent for further review. If the manuscript does not meet the requirements for registration in the journal and is not an original work based on the results of the plagiarism check, the manuscript is returned to the author for correspondence to make appropriate changes and re-send the manuscript for review by the editorial board via the electronic platform of the journal.

If the authors used the works, articles, statements, or quotations and statements of other researchers when writing the manuscript, they must necessarily refer to the works of these scientists and correctly formalize the cited text. Plagiarism is considered an unethical act that violates the principles scientists’ ethics kodex al-Farabi KazNU and is unacceptable in the journal “KazNU Bulletin.  Philology Series”.

Persons involved in the publishing process, especially members of the editorial board of the journal “KazNU Bulletin.  Philology Series”, to ensure the high quality of scientific publications, to avoid unfair practices in publishing activities, such as the use of false information, falsification of data, etc., to ensure the recognition of scientific achievements by society, they undertake to comply with the principles, standards and norms of scientific ethics adopted by the international community and the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, as well as to take measures to prevent such violations.

Members of the editorial board of the journal “KazNU Bulletin.  Philology Series” undertake to prevent violations by authors, members of the editorial board, reviewers of the principles, standards and norms of scientific ethics adopted by the international community and the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University.

In case of detection of violations of the principles, standards and norms of scientific ethics,  which are adopted by the international community and al-Farabi Kazakh National University, the editorial board undertakes to act in accordance with the “Publication ethics for scientific journal of Al-Farabi KazNU”, the Code of ethics of the scientist Al-Farabi KazNU and standards of Committee of publication ethics (COPE).

In the case that the article, published in the journal “KazNU Bulletin.  Philology Series” was discovered provable fact (s) of violation of principles, standards and norms of scientific ethics, the editorial board undertakes to withdraw this article from the issue in which it was published and official web site of the journal (to effect retraction of the article) with the obligatory indication of specific violations of the author (s) of the principles, standards and norms of scientific ethics and place an announcement in the next issue of the magazine.

The author(s) of the article, in which a provable fact of violation of the principles, standards and norms of scientific ethics was found, are not allowed to submit articles to the journal “KazNU Bulletin.  Philology Series” and in other scientific journals published by Al-Farabi Kazakh National University for the next 3 calendar years from the date of detection of the fact (s) of violation of the principles, standards and norms of scientific ethics.

Review process

Manuscripts submitted to the editorial board of the journal that meet the formal requirements, design requirements, and the originality indicator based on verification through the plagiarism verification system are necessarily sent for further review.

If the author (s) of the manuscript has a conflict of interest with other scientists, he(she) must indicate the existence of such a conflict of interest in the cover letter, in order to avoid sending this manuscript to the specified scientist (reviewer) and biased assessments of the manuscript.

In the journal “KazNU Bulletin.  Philology Series” applies a "two-way-blind" review, carried out by at least two scientists who have the degree of candidate of science, doctor of science, 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 reviewers via the electronic platform of the journal without specifying information about the authors. Reviewers are required to make a clear, objective and reasoned assessment of the manuscript's compliance with the main scientific criteria, as well as its quality and significance.

After receiving the conclusions from reviewers, the responsible editor sends them to the author for correspondence without specifying the reviewers ' data, for responding to comments, making appropriate changes, and re-sending the manuscript via the electronic platform. The author (s) can refuse to respond to comments, make changes to the manuscript and re-send it to the editorial office of the journal “KazNU Bulletin.  Philology Series”.

After responding to all comments, making changes to the manuscript to eliminate the reviewers' comments and re-sending it to the journal editor, the scientific editor sends all materials to the reviewer (s) for re-reviewing.

The manuscript, which has positive conclusions from two reviewers and the responsible editor, is recommended for publication in the journal “KazNU Bulletin.  Philology Series” according to the order of their acceptance for publication. The manuscripts approved by the editorial board are sent to the executive secretary to form the issue of the journal.

If one of the reviewers provided a positive opinion on the manuscript, and the second – a negative one, the manuscript is sent by the scientific editor to the third reviewer or a member of the editorial board who is an expert on the subject of the manuscript. If a third reviewer or a member of the editorial board provides a positive conclusion, the final decision to accept/reject the publication of the manuscript is made by the scientific editor of the journal “KazNU Bulletin.  Philology Series”.

In case of two negative reviews, the manuscript is rejected from publication in the journal.

The materials of articles rejected by the editorial board based on the results of reviewing are not used by the editorial board for its own purposes. The editor or executive secretary notifies the author for correspondence about the refusal to publish, and sends the reviewers' conclusions.

Reviews of manuscripts are stored for three years in electronic format on the electronic platform of the journal.

The review period is set by the editor responsible for the article and the review period is no more than two months from the date of sending the material to the reviewers.

Open access policy and archiving

Journal “KazNU Bulletin.  Philology Series” provides open access to its content on the official website of the magazine. This provides wider information access to the journal in 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 view electronic versions of the current issue of the journal and archives for previous periods. All journal publications in electronic form are distributed free of charge and without restrictions under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Copyright and licensing

Authors of articles in the journal “ KazNU Bulletin.  Philology Series ” reserves the author's right to scientific work and grants the journal the right of first publication along with the work, simultaneously licensing it under the Creative Commons Attribution License.

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.

Under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, authors retain the rights to their manuscripts, while allowing everyone to freely download, reuse, reprint, change, distribute or copy them, with a mandatory mark of authorship of this work and a link to a unique publication in this journal. Permission from the authors or publisher is not required for all these actions when specifying a link to the journal.

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.

Privacy policy

Information about authors – their names, affiliation, contact information, information about their position and academic degree, as well as links to the IDs of authors 'profiles in international databases, are placed in the article in the section "information about authors".

Members of the editorial board of the journal “KazNU Bulletin.  Philology Series” does not disclose information about the manuscript accepted for review before its publication to third parties, except for appointed reviewers. Also, the editorial board does not disclose information about reviewers to authors and other persons.