Aims and Scope of the Journal

Pandian Journal of Women's Studies – (PJWS) E-ISSN 2583-715X is an open-access journal from the patronization of Pandian Educational Trust, Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu, India. As a research journal, PJWS publishes quality based research articles from the literature, non-fictional works, empirical study reports, case studies, short communications and other related fields to supplement the educational gap of the academic professionals in the discipline of Women’s writing and Gender studies. PJWS follows a double-blind peer-review model to keep unbiased results in its evaluation to all received manuscripts. Its aim is to propagate academic merit and integrity and to hover as one of the best women studies journals in the arena of women's studies.

PJWS is a pioneer Gold Open Access Journal. From its inception, it contributes to make the academic content freely available via the Trust site and other scholarly harvesting databases. The journal follows The Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/ to ensure free availability of articles in public internet, permitting all to search, read, download, copy, distribute, print,  link the full texts of articles (PDF & other formats), indexing, data to other software, use them for lawful purposes, without financial and legal or technical barriers with proper attribution to the author. Now, the journal is published in electronic format and preserved in the trust website with permanent preservation facility and public access. 

Introduction of Publication model

The journal follows Calender Year Schedule from January to December Cycle to publish the Journal volume and Issues. It is bi-yearly and publishes two Issues per year on May and November. 

Author Guidelines

PJWS is a scholarly journal published in the month of May and November. The journal is pleased to accept submission of manuscripts in the fields of Women's Studies and other related fields and other related fields from all over the world.

PJWS is a peer-reviewed open access journal that publishes research articles in Women's Studies. It is publicly accessible via the trust Website and other partner scholarly databases and permanently archived in Internet Archive.

The manuscripts ought to be original works written in English and Tamil Language. The text length limit should be of minimum 2000 to 4000 words. Include the following primary information in the manuscript for submission: title, author(s) name, job title, affiliation, email id, abstract (200-300 words), and five keywords. For Tamil written articles, Title, abstract, Keywords (5), Transliteration of references in English is mandatory. there ought to be references from the past five years to ensure the novel nature of the research paper.

All manuscripts must follow the latest form of MLA or APA Style Guide for documentation.

Authors must obtain the copyright clearance in case of utilizing any copyrighted material used in their manuscripts. The trust, publisher or journal editorial board resumes no responsibility for authors' unsolicited use of copyrighted materials in preparing their manuscripts and the consequences liable to the author.

Authors who publish with PJWS agree to the following terms: Authors retain the copyright and grant the journal non-exclusive publishing rights with the article simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 license that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal to ensure free availability of articles in public internet, permitting all to search, read, download, copy, distribute, print,  link the full texts of articles (PDF & other formats), indexing, data to other software, use them for lawful purposes, without financial and legal or technical barriers with proper attribution to the author.While republication, the authors should completely acknowledge the original publication of the work in PJWS.

By agreeing to the terms of PJWS, the authors agree that the journal can publish the manuscript in the journal, reproduce, distribute the manuscript in printed, electronic or in other mediums, provide access to the manuscript in electronic databases through Internet and other forms. It adopts the CC BY under Creative Commons Attributions 4.0 International license for open access attribution. Authors receive PDF copy of the issue and an e-publication certificate.

The publishing of PJWS is sponsored by Pandian Educational Trust and does not accumulate any other charges rather than APC and adopts Gold Open Access Model. It collects 2000 INR as Article processing charges (APC) for technical work from the authors.

However, waivers will be given to research scholars and deserving academicians of the field.

PJWS accepts manuscript submissions through the online submission system. The manuscripts should be prepared in Microsoft Word format (MS Word) and be sent to president@pandianeducationaltrust.com. All correspondence in regard to manuscript submission should be through the mail same mail id.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As a vital part of the submission process, the authors are insisted to check their manuscript for submission with compliance to the following items and the submissions that are not perfect as per the guidelines would be declined.

The submission must not be previously published, nor in simultaneous submission to any other journal for consideration.

The submission file is in Microsoft Word.

ORCiD

Language of the article ought to be academic.

Parenthetical documentation, Proper Bibliographic references, URL or DOI for the electronic references have to be provided as per MLA or APA Style guidelines.

The text should be single-spaced: uses Times New Roman Type Face and 12 point font; use italics wherever necessary (Original Books, Journal Titles), don’t underline (except URL addresses). All types of illustrations, figures, and tables ought to be placed within the text at the appropriate points in alignment to the document, avoid giving them at the end.

The text must adhere to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements as outlined as in the Author Guidelines according to the MLA or APA Style.

Release / Peer-review Policy

Research articles will be published online only. Research articles are subjected to double blind peer-review method. PDF documents will be published on the Internet only after the reviewed articles have been evaluated for originality, novelty and other ethical principles in research and publishing methods.

Anti-plagiarism Policy

All article will be screened initially for plagiarism. The journal views plagiarism as an injustice to a scholar's intellectual knowledge. Proper attribution is expected. If there is plagiarism in the work of the researchers, the editorial board will reject the article. Is any found after publication, it will be retracted.

Open access Policy

Our Open access Policy allows our journal readers to honestly search, read, download, copy, and link articles.

Archival Policy

Our journal adopts a constant policy to deposit the full issues in Internet Archive for the Long-term preservation service.

License

Our journal adopts CC BY Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ benefit. It allows real works to be used, distributed and redesigned with appropriate attribution methods. Every work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Copyright

If the article is accepted for publication, authors will continue to retain their copyright of the published article.

NOTE: NO APC