A Scientific Book Writing Support Program

In view of the importance of the book and its role in enhancing the learning process at the university and enriching knowledge in society, the university decided to launch a program "Supporting the writing of the book" to achieve the university vision. This program encourages university academic staff and the researchers to invest their scientific expertise and potential in writing books and scientific series which enriches the scientific library.

Accordingly, the university initiated this idea and created this program and supported it due to its close connection with the educational process and community issues.

Objectives

1- Achieving the university vision.

2- Encouraging the writing and publication of important books that are closely related to the educational process with community issues and the challenges of the times.

3- Advising university employees to be creative in writing books in various fields of knowledge.

4- Increasing the university outputs of authored scientific books, and enriching the library with books that serve science and humanity.

Targeted

Academic staff and researchers at Al-Razi University

Standards

1- It must be in one of the scientific, health, or humanitarian fields of interest to the university and society.

2- The books written shall serve the areas of the university strategic plan.

3- The analysis of the elements, ideas and phenomena addressed by the topics of the book shall be comprehensive.

4- The author shall take into account scientific ethics and preserves the intellectual property of others.

5- The various modern scientific references related to the subject of the book shall be used.

6- The authored book shall have a clear contribution in its field.

7 - It shall be characterized by the accuracy , clarity and integrity of the language.

8- The book shall be not translated.

9- The book shall not have been previously published or presented at the same time for publication in any other party.

10- The author shall indicate in the book his affiliation with Al-Razi University.

Implementation Procedure

1- The author / authors shall submit a request to support writing a book to the Scientific Research Center by filling in the special form.

2- The application shall be examined by a scientific committee determined by the Scientific Research Center according to the field of the book, and it recommends any of the following:

A- Acceptance of the project to write the book (the main author will be informed of this)

B- Acceptance of the project with some amendments. (The main author shall be notified of making the amendments within two weeks)

C- Rejecting the project. (The main author shall be notified without giving the reasons for rejection)

3- The Scientific Committee submits its recommendations to the Council of the Scientific Research Center for approval.

4- Signing a contract with the author / authors and director of the Scientific Research Center.

5- The author / authors shall undertake to submit the required material during the contract period and to publish the book at the time agreed upon in the contract, and in case of breaching the conditions, the author / authors ’right to claim his financial rights stipulated in the contract shall be forfeited.

6- A financial reward shall be paid to authors based on the reports of the arbitrators according to the arbitration criteria, not exceeding 200,000 riyals

7- The project presenter is obligated to author according to the plan approved by the deanship.

8- A hard copy and an electronic copy of the book shall be submitted after writing it.

9 - The scientific committee in the deanship is responsible for ensuring that the written book matches the approved plan.

10- The book is evaluated by sending it to three (3) specialized reviewers, taking into account the academic degree of the reviewer.

11- The Scientific Committee recommends that the book be approved or that publishing is excluded, based on the reviewers’ reports and the authors’ responses.

12- The author’s reward shall be fully paid after his/her approval from the scientific committee upon completion of the first publication experiment.

13- The university shall own the rights to print the book

Rules for publishing authored books

1- The book is not considered acceptable for publication without the approval of the scientific committee.

2- A book is considered an integrated unit, regardless of the number of its parts, and is treated in terms of reward as one book.

3- The author is responsible for observing the rules of intellectual property rights of others. 4- The author grants (50) fifty copies of the book free of charge.s