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EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture focuses on publishing manuscripts within the following areas:

• teaching English as a first, second or foreign language, 
• English language teaching and learning, 
• English language teachers' training and education.
• postcolonial literature, 
• modern literature, 
• popular teen literature, 
• literature and teaching,
• modern culture, 
• postmoderism, 
• trans-national culture, 
• popular culture, 
• folk culture, and
• culture and language.

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Education

This section contains manuscripts within the fields of teaching English as a first, second or foreign language, English language teaching and learning, English language teachers' training and education.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Literature

This section includes postcolonial literature, modern literature, popular teen literature, literature and teaching.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Culture

This scope comprises modern culture, postmoderism, trans-national culture, popular culture, folk culture, culture and language.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

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EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature, and Culture is an international journal published by Universitas Islam Sultan Agung. The research article submitted to this online journal will be blind peer-reviewed by at least 2 (two) reviewers. The accepted research articles will be available online following the journal peer-reviewing process. Language used in this journal is English.

For checking Plagiarism, EduLite Editor will screen plagiarism manually (offline and online database) on the Title, Abstract, and Body Text of the manuscript, and by using Turnitin. If it is found a plagiarism indication, editorial board will reject manuscript immediately.

Review Process:

1. Editor will recieve manuscript from author;
2. Editor will evaluate manuscript (journal aim and scope, in house style, supplementary data); (Rejected if not meets criteria)
3. Editor will do screening for plagiarism on offline and online database manually; (Rejected if found major plagiarism, contacted author if found redunancy or minor plagiarism for clarification)
4. Editor will send manuscript to reviewer along with review form (blind review);
5. Reviewer will send back his review form to Editor (with revised manuscript if necessary);
6. Editor decision (rejected, requires major revision, needs minor revision, or accepted);
7. Confirmation to the Author.
8. If any revision, author will revise manuscripts and should be returned to the editor without delay. Returned later than three months will be considered as new submissions.

This journal uses Harvard dataverse to preserve research data, if author intends to preserve and share his/her research data for greater impact on global knowledge. Our review policy regarding this issue is as the following:

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EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature, and Culture is scheduled for publication twice a year in February and August.

copyright Open Access Policy

This journal 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.

All articles published Open Access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download.  We are continuously working with our author communities to select the best choice of license options, currently being defined for this journal as  Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY).

Self-archiving policy

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EduLite has been indexed and abstracted by:

• Directory Open Acces Journal (DOAJ)
• Science and Technology Index (Sinta)
• EBSCO
• Dimensions
• World Cat (World Catalog, Canada)
• Google Scholar
• Garba Rujukan Digital (Garuda)
• Indonesia One Search (IOS, Perpusnas RI)
• Moraref (Kemenag RI)
• Crossref (USA)
• Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE, Germany)
• ROAD (Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources) 
• etc.

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• Plagiarism and self-plagiarism are not allowed.
• The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.
• An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.
• Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

The Working Process:

1. Editorial Team of EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature, and Culture will check the manuscript on offline and online database manually (checking proper citation and quotation);
2. Editorial Team will check manuscripts submitted using TURNITIN and Google-based search engines. Depending on the level of originality and similarities with other documents, Chief Editor along with Section Editors will decide on whether to immediately reject the manuscripts, contact authors for further clarifications, or to proceed to the blind peer-review process. 

We are using C.O.P.E. flowchart to make an action on plagiarism. (Link)

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For transparency, we encourage authors to submit an author statement file outlining their individual contributions to the paper using the relevant CRediT roles: Conceptualization; Data curation; Formal analysis; Funding acquisition; Investigation; Methodology; Project administration; Resources; Software; Supervision; Validation; Visualization; Roles/Writing - original draft; Writing - review & editing. Authorship statements should be formatted with the names of authors first and CRediT role(s) following. More details and an example.

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If there is suspicion of misbehavior or alleged fraud, the journals and/or Publisher will carry out an investigation following COPE guidelines. If, after an investigation, there are valid concerns, the authors concerned will be contacted under their given email address and given an opportunity to address the issue. Depending on the situation, this may result in the journal and/or Publisher’s implementation of the following measures, including, but not limited to:

• If the manuscript is still under consideration, it may be rejected and returned to the author.
• If the article has already been published online, depending on the nature and severity of the infraction:

1. an erratum/correction may be placed with the article.
2. an editor’s note or editorial expression of concern may be placed with the article.
3. or, in severe cases, retraction of the article may occur.

The reason will be given in the published erratum/correction, editor’s note, editorial expression of concern, or retraction notice. Please note that retraction means that the article is maintained on the platform watermarked “retracted” and the explanation is provided in a note linked to the watermarked article.

• The author’s institution may be informed.
• A notice of suspected transgression of ethical standards in the peer review system may be included as part of the author’s and article’s bibliographic record.