Journal Policies
Open Access Policy
The Teaching Mathematics and Computer Science provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Teaching Mathematics and Computer Science is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author(s). This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.
Submission and publication of articles are free of charge and there is not charge any administrative fees or other costs (APC).
Review Policy
The TMCS journal uses a double-blind review process, meaning that the identity of reviewers and authors is hidden from each other during the review process.
The peer review process
All submissions are subject to peer review and editorial control of length and style.
If the Editors judge that the manuscript meets the aims and scope of the journal Teaching Mathematics and Computer Science, it is sent to two Reviewers after a plagiarism check. The Reviewer and the Author remain anonymous throughout the “double-blind” review process. Reviewers are selected according to their expertise in their fieldwork. Submitted papers are reviewed by at least two independent Reviewers.
The primary task of reviewers is to assist the editorial team in making editorial decisions. Reviewers are requested to evaluate whether the manuscript has already been published in another journal, is theoretically and methodologically sound, contains results that are clearly presented and support the conclusions and is the bibliography appropriate.
Reviewers judge each paper based on the following scale:
1. accept submission;
2. revisions required;
3. resubmit for review;
4. resubmit elsewhere;
5. decline submission.
If the opinions of the two Reviewers differ significantly, the Editors will also seek the opinion of a third Reviewer. After the manuscript has been reviewed, a decision is sent to the Corresponding Author, along with recommendations made by the referees. All manuscripts are reviewed as rapidly as possible, but the review process usually takes 3-5 months.
Copyright & Licensing
All articles published in the journal are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY) 4.0 international license agreement and published open access, making them immediately and freely available to read and download. The CC-BY license agreement allows authors to retain copyright while allowing others to copy, distribute, and make some uses of the work. The submission of a manuscript to this journal implies that, if and when the manuscript is accepted for publication by the journal, the authors agree to automatic transfer of the first publication rights to the journal, and permit the journal to apply a DOI to their articles and to archive and index them in databases. Copyrights for articles are retained by the authors.
Use of the article in whole or part in any medium requires attribution suitable in form and content as follows: Author, Year of publication, Title of Article, Journal Title, Volume, Issue, DOI
Archiving Policy
The Journal indexed by Jisc (Sherpa/Romeo).
The manuscript of the authors' articles entitled to be published by the following rules:
Pre- and post-prints: Archiving not formally supported.
Publisher's Version/PDF: Can archive on author or institutional server only or on author's personal web site, in open electronic archives that conform to standards of Open Archives Initiative, but must link to publisher version.
To guarantee that all papers published in the journal are maintained and permanently accessible, a complete archival copy of each article is stored in electronic format either in the institutional repository University of Debrecen Electronic Archive (DEA). To use the institutional repository exclusively is in progress.