ScholarJMS

The journal website operates on infrastructure, software, templates, workflows, and system modules that are owned and maintained by ScholarJMS.

This includes, but is not limited to:

• Website structure and layout framework
• Submission and peer review workflows
• Editorial and publishing management modules
• Security, performance, and compliance components
• System-generated pages and notices

Journal owners retain full ownership of their scholarly content, including articles, issues, and editorial materials. ScholarJMS does not claim ownership over journal intellectual property.

To ensure regulatory compliance, academic transparency, platform security, and service continuity, ScholarJMS reserves the right to deploy, update, or modify system-level pages and notices across all hosted journal websites.

System-level informational content provided by ScholarJMS may include educational articles, regulatory guidance, and publishing standards resources intended to support journal compliance and quality improvement. Such content is informational in nature and does not represent the editorial position of the hosted journal.

Such content may include:

• License and usage notices
• Platform policy disclosures
• Security or compliance announcements
• Regulatory alignment statements
• Technical or service-related notifications

These system-level contents are considered part of the platform's operational framework and cannot be removed or altered by tenant journals.

ScholarJMS does not interfere with the editorial decisions, peer review outcomes, or scholarly judgment of any hosted journal.

Journal owners remain solely responsible for:

• Editorial policies and scope
• Peer review processes
• Acceptance or rejection of manuscripts
• Academic integrity of published content

Platform-level notices do not influence or modify editorial independence.

Scholarly content published by journals hosted on ScholarJMS may be licensed under Creative Commons or other content licenses as determined by individual journals.

ScholarJMS does not alter or override journal-selected content licenses.

However, system-level pages, platform documentation, and platform-provided informational content remain the intellectual property of ScholarJMS and may not be reused without permission, unless otherwise stated.

ScholarJMS may introduce platform-level updates or disclosures to align hosted journals with evolving academic, regulatory, or indexing requirements, including but not limited to:

• Research ethics transparency
• Publishing policy standardization
• Website quality expectations
• Audit and accreditation readiness

Such updates are introduced to protect journals, institutions, and authors from compliance risks and to maintain platform-wide academic credibility.

ScholarJMS manages and maintains the database systems and programming stack that support journal operations.

This includes oversight of:

• Database performance and optimization
• Data integrity and backup mechanisms
• Application-level logic and workflows
• Programming frameworks and dependencies

ScholarJMS may modify, upgrade, or refactor database and application components to improve performance, scalability, or security across the platform.

The ScholarJMS software platform is continuously developed and improved.

ScholarJMS reserves the right to:

• Update software components
• Introduce new system features
• Modify existing workflows
• Deprecate outdated functionalities
• Enforce platform-wide standards

Such updates are applied uniformly to all hosted journals and are considered essential for maintaining compliance, performance, and long-term sustainability.

To protect journal data, author submissions, reviewer information, and published content, ScholarJMS may apply security, performance, or access-related changes at the platform level.

These measures are implemented without prior customization by individual journals and are essential for maintaining service reliability and data integrity.

ScholarJMS provides the platform on an as-is and as-available basis.

While reasonable efforts are made to ensure uptime, security, and data protection, ScholarJMS shall not be held responsible for content-level decisions, academic opinions, or claims made within published articles.

This Platform License and Usage Notice may be updated periodically to reflect changes in platform operations, legal requirements, or regulatory expectations.

Updates will take effect upon publication and will apply uniformly across all hosted journal websites.