About the Journal

Focus and Scope 

The aim of the Journal Stock Markets and Global Stock Lending is to be relevant to a wide range of parties from academics to those involved in the business and commercial side of Stock Markets and Global Stock Lending.

The Journal will publish articles on a wide variety of issues of relevance to the broad subject area, and of topics of comment debate, and authors will be allowed considerable freedom, subject to the maintenance of professional standards, in how they treat their area of enquiry.

Peer Review process

Manuscripts are initally screened by the Editor for conformity with aims and scope then sent to 2 experts in the subject of the article. Reviews are sent double blind. If reviewers conflict, an addtional expert is recruited and editorial decison for acceptance/rejection made on the basis of the complete advice received. Manuscripts are either accepted, accepted conditionally upon minor revision, rejected with an invitation for extensive revision or rejected.

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

The ethics statement are based on COPE's Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors. 

Publications Decisions 

The editor is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. 

The editor may be guided by the policies of the journal's editoral board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editor may confer with other editor's or reviewers in making this decision. 

Fair Play 

An editor at any time evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or polticial philosophy of the authors. 

Confidentiality 

The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about submitted manuscripts to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editoral advisors and the publishers, as appropriate. 

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest 

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editors own research without the express written consent of the author. 

Dutites of Reviewers 

Contribution to Editorial Decisions 

Peer review assits the editor in making decsions and through the editorial communcations with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.  

Promptness 

Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself/herself from the review process.

Confidentiality 

Any manuscript received  for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorised by the editor. 

Standard of Objectivity 

Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal critics, of the author is in appropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments. 

Acknowledgement of Sources

Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument has been previously reported should be accompained by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editors attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the citation. A reviewer should also call to the editors attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge. 

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest 

Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any other editors, compaines, or institutions connected to the papers. 

Duties of Author

Reporting Standards 

Authors of reports of orginal research should present an accurate account of the work preformed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly in accurate statements constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable. 

Orginality and Plagiarism 

The authors should ensure that they have written entirely orginal works, and if the authors have used the work/ or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted. 

Mulitiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication 

An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitues unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.

Ackonowledgement of Sources 

Proper acknowledgement of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work. 

Authorship of the Paper 

Authorship should be limted to those who have made a siginificant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. 

The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no in appropriate co-authors are included on the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to it submisson for publication.

Statement on informed Consent and Observation of Human and Animal Rights 

All authors of research reports involving human or animal subjects should provide for publication a statement on informed consent and institutionally approved observation of human and animal rights.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest 

All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed. 

Fundamental Errors in Published Works 

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccurency in his her own published work, it is the authors obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

Open Access Policy 

This journal provides immediate gold opne access under a CC-BY-NC Licence to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. 

Self Archiving and Institutional Repositories 

JSMGSL offers publishing model that enables wider access to academic research, global readership for authors and ensures the long-term preservation of published content. As a result, we permit authors to archive their contributions to this journal. This can be either via author's own websites or via their institutions or funding body's online repositories or archive. 

In addition, all published articles are archived by JSMGSL at a number or repositories including LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, PKP, and the British Library.