Supplementary Materials Policy

DScholar Press International permits the submission and publication of supplementary materials that support, clarify, or enhance the scholarly content of a manuscript. This policy applies to all publications, including peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed books, scholarly monographs, edited volumes, conference proceedings, working papers, and research reports.

Supplementary materials may include datasets, statistical analyses, computer code, software, algorithms, questionnaires, interview schedules, appendices, protocols, multimedia files, audio recordings, video files, high-resolution images, figures, tables, maps, technical documentation, and other supporting materials that are not essential to the main text but contribute to the understanding, verification, or reproducibility of the research.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that all supplementary materials are accurate, complete, relevant, and directly related to the manuscript. Supplementary files must be clearly identified, appropriately labelled, and cited within the manuscript where applicable. The content of supplementary materials must be consistent with the information presented in the main manuscript.

All supplementary materials submitted for publication must comply with the same standards of publication ethics, research integrity, copyright, confidentiality, and legal compliance that apply to the main manuscript. Authors must obtain any necessary permissions for copyrighted content and must ensure that confidential, personal, or sensitive information is removed, anonymized, or disclosed only where appropriate authorization has been obtained.

Where supplementary materials contain research data, software, images, or other materials supporting the findings of the manuscript, authors should also comply with the Press's Data Availability Policy and Data Sharing Policy. Where supplementary materials are deposited in an external repository, authors should provide the repository name, persistent identifier, accession number, or other appropriate reference within the manuscript.

The editorial office may evaluate supplementary materials as part of the editorial assessment or peer review process. Authors may be requested to revise, clarify, replace, or remove supplementary files where necessary to ensure accuracy, quality, or compliance with publication policies. The Press reserves the right not to publish supplementary materials that are incomplete, irrelevant, technically unsuitable, or inconsistent with the published manuscript.

Authors remain responsible for the accuracy and integrity of all supplementary materials published with their work. Errors or concerns identified after publication may be addressed through corrections, replacement of files, removal of supplementary materials, or other editorial action where appropriate.

DScholar Press International maintains this policy to support transparency, reproducibility, and the long-term accessibility of scholarly research by enabling authors to provide additional materials that enhance the value and reliability of published works while maintaining the integrity of the scholarly record.