Principles of Transparency and Best Practice

1. Website

The URL of the official journal website is https://www.jmis.org.

The editorial team endeavors to make a good website. Our website demonstrates that care has been taken to ensure high ethical and professional standards. It does not contain any misleading information, including any attempt to mimic another journal/publisher’s site.

2. Name of Journal

The official journal title is Journal of Multimedia Information System (herein “JMIS”), the abbreviation of ISO is J Multimed Inf Syst. JMIS is an online-only journal and its eISSN is 2383-7632.

3. Peer Review Process

The JMIS has an online submission and peer review system at https://www.manuscriptlink.com/journals/jmis.

JMIS adopts single-blind peer review and reviews all manuscripts received. A manuscript is first reviewed for its format and adherence to the aims and scope of the journal. If the manuscript does not fit the aims and scope of the Journal or does not adhere to the Author Guidelines, it may be returned to the author immediately after receipt and without a review. Before reviewing, all submitted manuscripts are inspected by Similarity Check powered by iThenticate (https://www.crossref.org/services/similarity-check/), a plagiarism-screening tool. Reviewers and editors must treat all submitted manuscripts and related materials as confidential and must not upload any part of them to an external generative AI or automated system where confidentiality cannot be assured, as stated in the Generative AI and AI-Assisted Technologies Policy.

The manuscripts are sent to two or more most relevant investigators for review of the contents. The editor selects peer referees by recommendation of the Editorial Board members or from the specialist database owned by the Editorial Board. The peer review process takes usually 4 to 8 weeks after the manuscript submission.

4. Ownership and Management

This journal is owned by the publisher, The Korea Multimedia Society (https://kmms.or.kr).

5. Governing Body

The governing body is the journal's editorial board.

6. Editorial Team and Contact Information

The full names and affiliations of the journal’s editors and members of journal management team are displayed on the Journal Info (Editorial board) tab of journal homepage, and the contact information for the editorial office is on the Journal Info (Contact information) tab.

7. Copyright and Licensing

Copyright to all published materials is owned by the Korea Multimedia Society. All authors should agree to the copyright transfer during the submission process.

JMIS is an open access journal. Articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. To use the tables or figures of JMIS in other journals, books or media for scholarly, educational purposes, the process of permission request to the publisher is not necessary. All contents of the journal are available immediately upon publication without embargo period.

8. Author Fees

The publication charge is USD 200 (KRW 200,000) per accepted article. An additional USD 100 (KRW 100,000) applies to articles for which the reported research received institutional research funding. The charge depends on whether the research was funded, not on whether the authors disclose funding, and complete disclosure of all funding sources is required of every submission regardless of any charge.

There is no submission fee. A temporary publication-fee waiver applies to eligible overseas authors.

For this waiver, overseas authors are those for whom both the first author and corresponding author are non-Korean and affiliated with institutions outside Korea.

9. Process for Identification of and Dealing with Allegations of Research Misconduct

When the journal faces suspected cases of research and publication misconduct such as redundant (duplicate) publication, plagiarism, fraudulent or fabricated data, changes in authorship, an undisclosed conflict of interest, ethical problems with a submitted manuscript, a reviewer who has appropriated an author’s idea or data, complaints against editors, and so on, the resolution process will follow the flowchart provided by the Committee on Publication Ethics (https://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts). The discussion and decision on the suspected cases are carried out by the Editorial Board. Suspected simultaneous submission of the same manuscript to more than one journal or conference is handled under the same process.

10. Publication Ethics

JMIS follows the COPE Core Practices (https://publicationethics.org/core-practices) and the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing (https://publicationethics.org/sites/default/files/principles-transparency-best-practice-scholarly-publishing.pdf).

JMIS publication ethics and publication-malpractice policies are available in the For Authors menu, including Research and Publication Ethics, Human and Animal Research Policy, Generative AI and AI-Assisted Technologies Policy, and Related-Party Co-authorship Policy.

These pages describe the journal's policies on authorship and contributorship, complaints and appeals, research misconduct, conflicts of interest, data sharing and reproducibility, ethical oversight, intellectual property, post-publication discussion, and corrections and retractions.

11. Publishing Schedule

JMIS is published 4 times (March 31, June 30, September 30, and December 31) a year.

12. Access

JMIS is an open access journal. A free full-text service both in the XML and PDF formats is available immediately upon publication without embargo period. Every article is assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) that is registered with Crossref under the prefix 10.33851. The DOI is displayed on the article page and is used for reference linking and for the Crossref Cited-by service.

13. Archiving

JMIS content is preserved and remains accessible through the Korea Citation Index (https://www.kci.go.kr) and the National Library of Korea (https://www.nl.go.kr) if journal publication ceases. Authors may archive preprints, accepted manuscripts, and the publisher's version/PDF, subject to the journal's copyright and licensing policy.

All published content is also freely available on the journal website at https://www.jmis.org/archive, which provides continuous access to every issue from the first volume. Availability on the journal website is a matter of access, whereas the deposits described above are the preservation arrangements that keep the content available independently of the journal website. Article metadata and DOIs are additionally registered with and retained by Crossref.

14. Revenue Sources

Revenue sources of journal are from the support of publisher (Korea Multimedia Society) and author fees.

15. Advertising

JMIS does not accept any commercial product advertisements until policy changes otherwise.

16. Direct Marketing

Journal propagation has been done through the journal website and distribution of an introduction pamphlet. Invitations to submit a manuscript are usually focused on the presenters at conferences, seminars, or workshops if the topic is related to the journal's aims and scope.