Publisher

Who we are

Wexgrand Academic Press is the scholarly publishing arm of Wexgrand Private Limited, a private limited company based in Ernakulam, Kerala. The company works in software and digital publishing, and set up the press to bring that experience to open-access research.

CIJAR is the press's first journal. The person responsible for it on behalf of the publisher is Ahammed Manzoor K, Director.

What the publisher does

The publisher looks after everything a journal needs to run, apart from deciding what to publish:

• the journal website, submission system and tracking service
• copy-editing, typesetting and the final PDF of each article, with full citation details on its first page
• a permanent page and link for every article, and an archive arranged by volume and issue
• registrations such as the ISSN, and applications to indexing services
• hosting, security and regular backups

Editorial independence

Which papers are accepted is decided by the editorial board, through peer review. The publisher does not overrule those decisions, and no business interest of the company plays any part in them.

If someone connected to the company submits a paper, an editor with no link to them handles it, and it goes through the same review as every other submission.

Fees and funding

Authors pay nothing to submit or publish, and readers pay nothing to read. The publisher meets the cost of running the journal itself. CIJAR does not carry advertising.

Access and preservation

Every article is free to read online from the day it is published, under the CC BY 4.0 licence; authors keep their copyright. The publisher keeps backup copies of all published issues so that the archive stays available. See copyright and licensing for details.

Contacting the publisher

Write to editor@cijar.org, or by post to Wexgrand Academic Press, No. 4/461, Suite No. 1331, Valamkottil Towers, Thrikkakara, Ernakulam, Kerala – 682021, India.

For questions about a manuscript, use Track a submission or the contact form.