Key dates:

• 6th of May– Speaker registration
• 31st of May  – Abstract submission (sent by email)
• 10th of June  – Notification of acceptance of abstracts and speakers (new deadline)
• 20th of June – Fee payment
• 31st of July  – Paper submission
• 17th-19th of September – InfoGlob Conference 2019

The papers must report original, previously unpublished findings. Papers must be written in good English (according to chosen language of the publication) and should clearly state the purpose of the work and include: an introduction, methodology, results and main conclusions. A single paper's length should be between 6-10 pages. The Organizer will systematically check all papers on plagiarism and as a result will refuse deficient papers for publication. Papers that are refused because out of scope or suspected of plagiarism will be charged to the author in full of the agreed price.

All papers presented during the conference and accepted by the Scientific Committee will be published in an open access scheme on the Scientific Journals of the Maritime University of Szczecin. Organizers offer also a possibility to publish in the University of Gdańsk Press selected papers in a thematic monography (book) in case of sufficient papers submitted and authors declarations on publishing their paper as a chapter.

Please keep in mind, that conference paperrs should be submitted to the Conference Organizers, not to the Publishing.

In Poland, authors of papers published in the Scientific Journals of the Maritime University of Szczecin receive 20 points per paper. Their affiliated organization include the same quote to the yearly reported achievements.

According to the Regulation of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of 16 June 2018, (Item 2152) journals indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index will be included in the list of ranked scientific journals (at least 20 points). At the same time, we would like to inform you that the Scientific Journals of the Maritime University of Szczecin have been submitted to the ministerial competition ‘Support For Scientific Journals‘ what may result in an increase in scores.

Monographs published by the University of Gdańsk Press have allocated 100 points. Individual point allocation depends on the authors input and affiliation. All papers will be publish in 2020.

Scientific databases

The Scientific Journals of the Maritime University of Szczecin (Zeszyty Naukowe Akademii Morskiej w Szczecinie)
ISSN 1733-8670 (Printed) ISSN 2392-0378 (Online)

are indexed in the following databases:

• ARIANTA - scientific and branch Polish on-line magazines 
• Baidu Scholar - scientific sources search engine 
• BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine 
• BazTech - database containing Polish technical journals 
• CEON - Biblioteka Nauki (Library of Science) 
• CiteFactor - Academic Scientific Journals 
• Czasopisma punktowane - List of Polish Ministry of Science (MNiSW) 
• DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals 
• EBSCOhost - Academic Search Complete database 
• Web of Science ESCI - Emerging Sources Citation Index in Web of Science™ Core Collection 
• GIGA Information Centre - Electronic Journals Library
• GIF - Global Impact Factor 
• Google Scholar - World Wide Science 
• ImpactFactor.pl - a compendium of scientific journals 
• Index Copernicus International - a specialised platform to promote scientific achievements 
• InfoBase Index - comprehensive, multipurpose database covering scholarly literature from all over the world 
• INFO NA - Scientific Communication Portal 
• nukat - Polish scientific libraries resources 
• OCLC WorldCat® - scientific sources database 
• PBN - Polska Bibliografia Naukowa (Polish Scientific References) 
• POL-index - Polska Baza Cytowań (Polish Citation Database) 
• ROAD - Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources 
• SJIFactor - Scientific Journal Impact Factor 

Personal data Personal data of the authors, reviewers and members of the Scientific Board, subscribers and partners of the Scientific Journals of the Maritime University of Szczecin are protected according to the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation - GDPR).

Copyrights

Authors retain the copyright to their work, licensing it under the Creative Commons Attribution License Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0) which allows articles to be re-used and re-distributed without restriction, as long as the original work is correctly cited.

Plagiarism detection

The process of peer-review lies at the heart of scientific publishing. The editorial office of the Scientific Journals of the Maritime University of Szczecin protects the integrity of the paper quality with international standards on detecting plagiarism.

The SJ performs the following actions to prevent or detect plagiarism:

• using expertise of the Scientific Board members who are acknowledged international experts in their disciplines; 
• proper selection of reviewers; 
• providing open access to all published papers; 
• indexing papers in internationally accessed databases; 
• making public the information about sources of funding for the research presented in papers. 

In the case of detecting plagiarism, the editorial office of the SJ takes appropriate actions to reveal scientific misconduct of authors, notifying the right authorities, employers and prosecution included.

Conflict of interests

A potential conflict of interest exists when an author, editor, publisher, reviewer or Scientific Board member has a personal or financial interest or belief that could influence his/her actions or affect objectivity. The following are the most obvious examples of conflicts of interests: financial relationships - direct (employment, stock ownership, patents) and indirect (consultancies to sponsoring organizations, paid expert testimony), e.g. an author carried out research commissioned by the reviewer; personal relationships especially in academic competition or intellectual passion; personal beliefs that are in direct conflict with the topic of investigation. Both author(s), reviewers and editors take into account the consideration that when there is a conflict of interest they will take appropriate actions in order to avoid it and will inform everyone it may concern.

Ghostwriting

In order to prevent scientific misconduct, the Editorial Board of the Scientific Journals of the Maritime University of Szczecin (Zeszyty Naukowe Akademii Morskiej w Szczecinie) introduced a procedure, consistent with the guidelines of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, protecting against "ghostwriting" and "guest authorship":

1. If necessary Authors are required to submit their papers with a declaration of authorship specifying the contribution of individual authors (to concepts, principles, methods, etc. used in the paper) and their affiliations. The main responsibility lies with the author submitting the publication (the declaration template is available on the website of the Quarterly). 
2. If necessary Authors are required to provide information about funding sources and contribution of research institutions, associations and other entities to the publication. 
3. All detected cases of "ghostwriting" and "guest authorship" will be exposed, including notifying the appropriate entities (institutions employing the authors, scientific societies and associations, etc.). 
4. All detected cases of scientific misconduct are documented. 

For "ghostwriting" we take the cases when someone has made a substantial contribution to a publication and thier participation as an author has not been revealed or when their role has not been described in the acknowledgments. "Guest authorship" ("honorary authorship") are situations when an author's contribution is insignificant, despite of the previous declaration.

Please, remember that the paper publication must be combined with a presentation on the INFOGLOB 2019 Conference.