Announcements

**Announcement Regarding Fees for the Kalasin University Academic Journal**

1. According to the announcement by Kalasin University regarding the fees for the Journal of Engineering and Industrial Technology, Kalasin University, the fees are currently exempted. Fees will start being collected once the journal passes the quality assessment by the Thai Journal Citation Index (TCI).

2. Various forms and documents for the Journal of Engineering and Industrial Technology, Kalasin University, can be downloaded from this link:

[Download Documents for the Journal of Engineering and Industrial Technology, Kalasin University]

**Duties and Responsibilities of the Editorial Board:**
- Establish procedures for preparing original manuscripts and other necessary details that authors must follow, and inform interested authors and the general public about submitting articles for publication.
- Collect publication fees, manuscript handling fees, or other charges from authors with clear announcements of conditions, criteria, and collection rates for interested authors and the general public (according to the announcement on fees for the Kalasin University academic journal).
- Check for duplicate publication and plagiarism.
- Ensure a bias-free, fair, and timely quality assessment process conducted by three experts.
- Keep the identities of authors and reviewers confidential during the assessment process, and not disclose content or information in the articles until they are published.
- Select articles for publication based on quality, without favoring research articles for the benefit of the authors or the journal without considering the quality assessment results.
- Do not reject articles solely due to suspected ethical misconduct without investigating and informing the authors first.
- Do not participate in the decision-making process for articles where they are authors or have conflicts of interest.
- Do not request citations to increase citation counts or the journal's impact factor, or to increase citations of their own or associates' work.
- Have a complaint system for editorial board decisions and published articles.
- Have a system to correct serious errors in articles and retract articles found to violate research ethics, and not ignore or neglect errors and ethical misconduct related to published articles.

**Duties and Responsibilities of Reviewers:**
- Maintain confidentiality and not disclose information in articles until they are published.
- Evaluate articles impartially and without bias.
- Do not suggest authors cite works to increase citations of their own or associates' work.
- Submit assessment results on time.
- Inform the editorial board if there are conflicts of interest with the article authors.
- Report any ethical misconduct by authors, such as plagiarism, data fabrication, or using false research results, to the editorial board.

**Duties and Responsibilities of Authors:**
- Submitted works must not have been published elsewhere and should not be under consideration for publication in another journal or academic publication.
- Submitted works must not contain any plagiarism, whether of their own or others' work, and must include proper and complete citations.
- Do not fabricate or distort data in research reports.
- Strictly adhere to authorship ethics, ensuring all listed authors have significantly contributed to the research and not omitting any significant contributors.
- If there are multiple authors, all must agree with the manuscript and its submission for publication consideration.
- If an article enters the peer-review process and the author wishes to withdraw, a penalty fee of 1,500 THB (one thousand five hundred baht) must be paid for the Journal of Engineering and Industrial Technology, Kalasin University, to proceed.