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Authors Guidelines

Philosophy of BAU Journal - Science and Technology

For more information, please see the BAU Journal - Science and Technology Aims and Scope page.

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Open Access Statement

BAU Journal – Science and Technology (BAUJ-ST) is a fully open access journal. All articles are freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication, without subscription fees, access fees, registration requirements, or embargo periods. Readers may read, download, copy, print, search, link to, and redistribute published articles in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), as explained in the Licensing section below.

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Upon acceptance and publication of an article in BAU Journal – Science and Technology (BAUJ-ST), copyright in the article is transferred to Beirut Arab University as the publisher. Beirut Arab University, as the copyright holder, publishes the Version of Record under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

The transfer of copyright enables Beirut Arab University to publish, preserve, distribute, and index the article, protect the integrity of the published work, and take appropriate action in cases of plagiarism, copyright infringement, unauthorized use, or misrepresentation.

The Creative Commons license applies only to material for which Beirut Arab University holds the necessary rights. Figures, photographs, datasets, or other third-party material may be subject to separate copyright terms.

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Licensing

All articles published in BAU Journal – Science and Technology (BAUJ-ST) are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

View the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.

Under this license, anyone is free to:

  • Share — copy and redistribute the article in any medium or format.

The following conditions apply:

  • Attribution — appropriate credit must be given to the authors and the journal, a link to the license must be provided, and any changes must be indicated. Credit may be given in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the authors or journal endorse the user or the use.
  • NonCommercial — the article may not be used for commercial purposes.
  • NoDerivatives — if the article is remixed, transformed, or built upon, the resulting work may not be distributed.

This license applies to all articles published in BAU Journal – Science and Technology from Volume 1, Issue 1 onwards.

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Who Can Submit?

Anyone may submit an original article to be considered for publication in BAU Journal - Science and Technology

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Use of Generative AI and AI-Assisted Technologies

BAU Journal – Science and Technology (BAUJ-ST) recognizes that generative artificial intelligence and AI-assisted technologies may support authors in preparing manuscripts, improving language clarity, organizing ideas, reviewing literature, analyzing information, or enhancing readability. However, these tools must be used responsibly and must not replace human critical thinking, scholarly judgment, subject expertise, or author accountability.

Authors remain fully responsible for the originality, accuracy, integrity, reliability, and validity of all content submitted to the journal. Any output generated or supported by AI tools must be carefully reviewed, verified, edited, and approved by the authors before submission. Authors are responsible for checking the accuracy of AI-assisted content, including references, quotations, data interpretation, and any factual claims, since AI-generated content may be inaccurate, incomplete, biased, or fabricated.

Authors must ensure that the use of any AI tool does not violate privacy, confidentiality, copyright, intellectual property rights, or third-party rights. Unpublished manuscripts, confidential data, personal information, copyrighted materials, or sensitive research data should not be uploaded to AI tools unless the authors are certain that the tool's terms and conditions protect confidentiality and do not allow unauthorized reuse, sharing, storage, or training on the submitted content.

Generative AI and AI-assisted technologies must not be listed as an author or co-author. Authorship is limited to human contributors who meet the journal's authorship criteria, can take responsibility for the work, approve the final manuscript, and respond to questions about the accuracy or integrity of the research.

Authors must disclose the use of generative AI or AI-assisted technologies in manuscript preparation. The disclosure should be included at the end of the manuscript, before the references, under the heading:

Declaration of Generative AI and AI-Assisted Technologies in the Writing Process

The declaration should state the name of the AI tool used, the purpose for which it was used, and the extent of human review and oversight. Basic spelling, grammar, punctuation, and formatting checks do not require disclosure. If AI tools were used as part of the research methodology, data analysis, software development, image analysis, or experimental process, this use must be clearly described in the Methods section in sufficient detail to allow evaluation and reproducibility.

Generative AI or AI-assisted tools must not be used to create, alter, manipulate, enhance, obscure, move, remove, or introduce features in figures, images, or artwork submitted to the journal, unless such use is part of the declared research design or methodology. Routine adjustments such as brightness, contrast, or color balance are acceptable only when they do not obscure, eliminate, or misrepresent information in the original image. Where AI-assisted image processing forms part of the research, authors must describe the tool, model, version, process, and purpose in the Methods section and may be asked to provide original or pre-processed files for editorial assessment.

The journal may request clarification from authors regarding the use of AI tools and may take appropriate editorial action if undisclosed or inappropriate use of AI is identified.

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General Submission Rules

Submitted articles cannot have been previously published, nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic). Please note: "publication" in a working-paper series does not constitute prior publication. In addition, by submitting material to BAU Journal - Science and Technology, the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that he or she will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at BAU Journal - Science and Technology. If you have concerns about the submission terms for BAU Journal - Science and Technology, please contact the editors.

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Publication Fees

BAU Journal – Science and Technology (BAUJ-ST) does not charge any submission fees, article processing charges (APCs), or publication fees at any stage of the editorial or publication process.

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Formatting Requirements

BAU Journal - Science and Technology has no general rules about the formatting of articles upon initial submission. There are, however, rules governing the formatting of the final submission. See Manuscript Preparation Guidelines for details. Although bepress can provide limited technical support, it is ultimately the responsibility of the author to produce an electronic version of the article as a high-quality PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) file, or a Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, or RTF file that can be converted to a PDF file.

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