The Achievers Journal
Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture
ISSN: 2454-2296 (Print Version)
ISSN: 2395-0897 (Electronic Version)
DOI NUMBER: 05.2016-82675229
DOI LINK: http://doi-ds.org/doilink/05.2016-82675229/
Publication Frequency: Quarterly (4 issues per year). The Achievers Journal publishes issues in April, July, October, and January.
Nature: Print and Online
Submission: Online 
Language of Publication: English
Email: theachieversjournal@yahoo.com
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FOCUS AND SCOPE
The Achievers Journal is an International journal set out to explore the ideas in the field of English Language, Literature, and Culture. It is a non-profit, peer-reviewed, indexed, quarterly research journal (print and online) with its objective to act as a platform for new as well as reputed scholars to share their ideas, experience, and knowledge with others of their fields to facilitate scholarly communication.
OPEN ACCESS STATEMENT
The Achievers Journal has completely free and unrestricted access for scholars, teachers, students, and other curious minds. The free access to The Achievers Journal will accelerate research, enrich education, share the learning of the rich with the poor and the poor with the rich, make this journal as useful as it can be, and lay the foundation for uniting humanity in a common intellectual conversation and quest for knowledge. It gives readers the extraordinary power to find and make use of relevant literature and it gives authors and their works vast and new visibility, readership and impact.
The Achievers Journal permits any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, is to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited. This open access statement is adapted from Budapest Open Access Initiative.
PEER REVIEW PROCESS
After submission, the review process will take ten to fifteen days. Three or more than three experts will review the paper (double blind review) and if any error found, rectification will be done only with the consent of the author. An acceptance letter will be sent if the research paper is accepted for publication. The Journal reserves the right to reject the paper if it is plagiarized and not original, published elsewhere/ is under review for any other journal.
PUBLICATION FREQUENCY
The Achievers Journal publishes issues in April, July, October, and January.
National Advisory Board:
Dr Deepti Gupta, Professor, Department of English, Punjab University, Chandigarh-160014, India
deepti.elt@gmail.com
Dr Nagendra Kumar, Professor, and Head,
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, Haridwar Highway, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, 247664
nagendra.kumar@hs.iitr.ac.in
Dr Onkar Nath Upadhyay, Professor, Department of English and Modern European Languages, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, UP
onupadhyay21@yahoo.com
Prof. Md. Rizwan Khan, Department of English, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, Email: khanriz65@gmail.com, Mobile: 976098707
Prof. Vinod Kumar Singh, Dean, Student Welfare, Department of English, DSMR University, Lucknow, India, Email: vksingh35@gmail.com
Prof. Anshuman Khanna, Department of English, BHU, Varanasi, Email: anshuman40@yahoo.co.in
Prof. Latif Hussain Kazmi, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, Email: latifkazmi@gmail.com
Prof. Hiralal Prajapati, Dean, Faculty of Visual Arts, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, U.P., India, Email: prajapati.hl@gmail.com
Dr. Sudhir Narayan Singh, Associate Professor of English, Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur, UP 273010, Email: sudhirnarayansingh2009@gmail.com Mob. 9416682979
Dr. Abid Hadi, Associate Professor, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh India, Email: drabid110@gmail.com Mob. 9457335557
Dr. Gautam K. Kshatriya, Professor, University of Delhi, Tel: +91-11-27667329, Mob. +91-9899915374, Email: g26_51@yahoo.co.in
Dr. P P Singh, HOS, School of Arts and Languages, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India, Email: pavitar19476@lpu.co.in
Dr. Ajoy Batta, Professor and HOD, Department of English, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India, Email: ajoybatta12@gmail.com, Mob. 9988500220
International Advisory Board
- Prof. Shah Kawthar Mustafa, University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh. E-mail: kawtharmustafa@yahoo.com
- Prof. Yasien Mohamed, Department of Foreign Languages, University of the Western Cape (South Africa), E-mail:ymohamed@uwc.ac.za
- Prof. Abdul Mannan, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Email: mannan_philosophy@yahoo.com
- Prof. Golam Dastagir, Jahangirnagar University, Saver, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Email: dastagir02@yahoo.com
- Dr. Bawa KAMMAMPOAL, Maître de Conférences de littérature africaine d’expression anglaise Et didactique de l’anglais, Fulbright Alumni, University of New York City (USA),Université de Kara, Togo, Contact : 228 90 15 24 96 /228 91 32 93 03/99 85 94 05
- Dr. Moshood Zakariyah, Department of English, College of Humanities, Management & Social Sciences, Kwara State University, Malete. Email: zakariyah2oo9@yahoo.com
Associate Editors:
Dr. Sunil Kumar Mishra, Associate Professor of English, Amity University, Haryana, E-mail: doctorsunilmishra@gmail.com, Mobile: 9868001796; 9910784613
Dr. P. Durga Rao, Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences and Languages, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India. Email: drpdurga@gmail.com, Mob. +91 6281862057
Dr. Nalini Singh Kamil, Associate Professor, and Head, Department of English and Other Foreign Languages, Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi, UP, India, Email: kamilbhu@gmail.com
Dr. Raman Kumar, Assistant Professor, Govt. College Bangana, Distt. Una (Himachal Pradesh), Email: rmn.jaswal@gmail.com, Mob. +91-7018635866
Dr. J.P. Aggarwal, Associate Professor, Department of English, Lovely Professional University, Email: ahrestoes4769@gmail.com Mob. 9780500673
Dr. Aruna Bhat, Assistant Professor, Department of English, DAV University, Email: aroonaaruna@gmail.com, Mob. +91-9086510587
Dr. Nipun Chaudhary, Associate Professor, Department of English, Lovely Professional University, Email: nipun085@gmail.com, Mob. 9782359242
Dr. Kirandeep Singh, Professor, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India, Mob. No. 7986510181
Dr. Pankaj Singh, Assistant Professor, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India, Mob. 8428198700
Dr. S. K. Sarkar, Professor, Graphic Era University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, Mob. 9915564879
Dr. Arjun Kumar Singh, Assistant Professor, Chitkara University, Punjab, India, Mob. No. 9872540346
Dr. Kumar Gaurav, Assistant Professor, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India, Mob. 6202005926, Email: kumargaurav.26619@lpu.co.in
Editor-in-Chief:
Dr. Sanjay Prasad Pandey, Associate Professor, Department of English, Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar- Delhi G T Road, Phagwara, Punjab, India, PIN CODE: 144411
Mob: (+91) 8146873377
Email: theachieversjournal@yahoo.com
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Our Deceased Editors:
- Dr. Lalji Misra, Ex- Principal, DDU Womens’ Degree College, Sevapuri, Varanasi, UP
- Dr. Ghanshiam Sharma, Formerly, Professor and Head, Deptt. of English, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India
PUBLICATION ETHICS AND MALPRACTICE STATEMENT
The publication ethics and publication malpractice statement of The Achievers Journal are mainly based on the Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, Committee on Publication Ethics. ( http://publicationethics.org/)
Duties of the Authors
The authors of The Achievers Journal must make sure that they submit new and original work and the submission should not be the reproduction of the works that have already been published in some other journal, or should not submit any article to The Achievers Journal that are being reviewed by any other journal or should not send the article to any other journal which are under consideration and being reviewed by The Achievers Journal simultaneously. The authors can get their works published elsewhere only after the rejection by The Achievers Journal, or if their request to withdraw their submission is officially accepted by the editor-in-chief of The Achievers Journal. It is the responsibility of the author to inform the editor-in-chief of The Achievers Journal of any inaccuracy of data in their published work, so that correction or retraction of the work could be done. The Achievers Journal will not be responsible for any shortcoming in their work.
Duties of the Reviewers
The reviewer(s) of TAJ must disclose any competing interest before agreeing to review a submission. They can refuse to review any submission due to a conflict of interest or inadequate knowledge. It is the responsibility of the reviewer to review all the articles submitted objectively, fairly and professionally, and reveal any ethical misconduct encountered while reviewing to the Editor-in-Chief for further action. The reviewers of TAJ must ensure the originality of a submission and be alert to any plagiarism and redundant publication. They must not discuss the content of the submission without permission. The reviewers must adhere to the time allocated for the review process. The reviewer’s requests for an extension to review the submission is at the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief.
Duties of the Editorial Board Members
The members of the editorial board must actively contribute to the development and growth of the journal. They must act as the ambassador of the journal and continuously support and promote the journal. They must impart their duties of reviewing the articles assigned to them.
Duties of the Editor-in-Chief
The editor-in-chief must evaluate the manuscripts fairly and decide which articles can be published on the basis of intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the author. The editor-in-chief must ensure the confidentiality of manuscripts and should not disclose any information regarding manuscripts to anyone other than the people involved in the publishing process. He must actively seek the views of board members, reviewers, and authors on how to improve/ increase the image and visibility of the journal. He must give clear instructions to potential contributors on the submission process and what is expected of the authors. He must also ensure appropriate reviewers are selected/ identified for the reviewing process.
Plagiarism
Authors should submit only original work that is not plagiarized and has not been published or being considered elsewhere. Appropriate software may be used by the editorial board to check for similarities of submitted manuscripts with existing work. The inclusion of fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements is unacceptable. Work and/or words from other publications must be appropriately cited or quoted.
Reporting
Authors should state their results clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification or inappropriate data manipulation. The methods used in the work should be clearly and unambiguously described so that the findings can be repeated and confirmed by other researchers.
Conflicts of Interest
A statement on conflict of interest must be included in the manuscript if authors receive any support that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.
Authorship and Collaboration
Name of authors listed in a paper should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the report. Only those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors.
Multiple or Redundant
Authors should not publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research output in more than one journal or primary publication. A similar manuscript should not be submitted to more than one journal concurrently as this constitutes as unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
PLAGIARISM POLICY
Plagiarism is when an author attempts to pass off someone else’s work as his or her own. This includes information from web pages, books, songs, television shows, email messages, interviews, articles, artworks or any other medium. Duplicate publication, sometimes called self-plagiarism, happens to take place when an author reuses substantial parts of his or her own published work without providing the appropriate citation. To paraphrase, summarize, or take words, phrases, or sentences from another person’s work, needs to indicate the source of the information within the paper using an internal citation. It is not enough to just list the source in a bibliography at the end of the paper. Failing to properly quote, cite or acknowledge someone else’s words or ideas without an internal citation is also plagiarism.
As part of this process, The Achievers Journal scans every manuscript with plagiarism tool. Such manuscripts would not be considered for publication in The Achievers Journal: Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture. If any article is found to be plagiarized or reported by anybody to have been plagiarized even after publication, the article will be REMOVED with a notice for the misdeed and the author will be blacklisted.
Copyright and Licensing
Copyright and Publication licensing
Author(s) of The Achievers Journal: Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture are required to grant The Achievers Journal: Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture the unlimited rights to publish their work in any format, and medium, for any lawful purpose.
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for English Studies
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