Terms and Conditions
Terms and Conditions
Scope • These business terms and conditions are applicable to contracts purchased through the www. Sharp Brain Publications.org website and all of its subdomains (hereinafter referred to as the “Website”), related email correspondence, and all associated services offered by Novalex Press, I87 Brooklands Road, B28 8JP, Birmingham, UK (hereinafter referred to as “Novalex Press”).
• The term “Customer” will be employed in these Terms and Conditions to denote any user of the website or purchaser of services.
• Any business terms by the customer that deviate from these terms and conditions will not be applicable unless specifically approved in writing by Novalex Press.
• The Website’s Terms of Use (Terms of Use) are a critical element of the current Terms and Conditions.
Offering of Publications by Sharp Brain
Customers may utilize the website to request editorial services and scientific publications from Novalex Press.
Service Orders and Purchases with Novalex Press
In order to purchase a publication service, the client must first create an account on the website.
• To register on the website, the consumer must be at least 18 years old and legally capable.
• The customer is interested in contracting for publication and editorial services from Novalex Press as soon as they submit an original scientific article (the “Article”) for peer review and potential publishing.
• The customer gives their permission for the document to be published in an open access format, which means that anybody can view it. After the work is accepted for publication, the customer is also obliged to pay the article processing charge (APC), which they have consented to.
• When a client uses a service from Novalex Press, they have the following cancellation rights: The customer retains the opportunity to withdraw their expressed desire to finish the contract and remove the article from evaluation at any stage during the peer-review process.
• Once an article has been approved for publication, the customer has no right to request its return. Novalex Press is obligated to reimburse the client for any benefits or privileges that were granted to them before the cancellation.
The following cancellation rights are available to Novalex Press when they provide services to a customer: The agreement is terminable if Novalex Press rejects the article at any moment without providing a reason. After the cancellation through Novalex Press, both parties are no longer obligated by any of the terms and conditions that were previously in effect.
• A full refund will be given to the customer if they have already paid for any services before the contract is cancelled.
• If the customer pays more than what Novalex Press billed, a portion of the excess amount will be refunded to them after deducting any bank costs or transaction fees.
• Authors will only be reimbursed in exceptional circumstances after their articles have been published; Novalex Press will evaluate each case on an individual basis.
Copyright and Manuscript Concerns
If your manuscript includes excerpts from other publications, you must provide proof that you have obtained the necessary copyright authorization. For information about permits and rights, please visit our website: The rights and responsibilities of writers.
Your article is ready to be processed as long as it hasn’t been published or submitted to another journal. Please advise us if this is not the case, though, because there is an exception for papers that contain information released at conferences. When there are multiple authors on a document, it is especially important that they be all familiar with its contents and agree with it.
We reserve the right to contact each author for confirmation in the event that we have any doubts. Each author’s full name, mailing address, and email address should be included for invoicing purposes. If there is more than one co-author, please provide their institutional email addresses as well.
• If this work is accepted as an open access paper, the terms and limits of its dissemination will be governed by the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Novalex Press will add the following note at the end of the published document: The writers hold the copyright 201X, and Novalex Press is the party that has licensed it. All rights to this publicly available content are reserved under the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Pricing and Payment Conditions
Pricing and Payment Conditions
The page detailing the Article Publishing Fee outlines the pricing information. The fee for the publication service of an accepted article is based on the date when the article was initially submitted to Novalex Press.
Authors affiliated with institutions participating in our institutional open access program (IAOP) qualify for discounts on the service price, and reviewers might also be eligible. Furthermore, Novalex Press reserves the right to deny discounts and waivers without the need for explanation, although they may be granted in exceptional situations.
Payment to Novalex Press is required within 5–10 days after the customer receives the invoice.
Shortly after an article receives acceptance for publication, invoices are sent via email to the payment contact specified by the customer.
Agreement Document
Novalex Press does not provide for a separate contract document in accordance with these Terms and Conditions. The Customer can check the ordered services and the status of the Article at any time through their personal account on the Website.
Various
Regardless of the customer’s location outside of the UK, any legal issues arising from these terms and conditions will fall under the jurisdiction of Birmingham, UK.
Only the British law relevant to the jurisdiction of Novalex Press will be applied.
If any of the remaining terms and conditions are found to be invalid, it will not affect the validity of the others. The contractual parties must engage in negotiations to substitute the invalid clause with a valid arrangement that closely resembles the original provision.
Novalex Press reserves the right to change these terms and conditions at any time by posting updates on this website page without prior notice. Kindly take a moment to review these terms and conditions periodically for any updates. By continuing to use any service after modifications are posted, you will be considered to have accepted and consented to those changes.