Volume 1, 2020
issue I, March
issue II, June
issue III, September
issue IV, December

Recognition by Govt of Pakistan (HEC).
Quarterly Published
Recognition by Govt of Pakistan (HEC).
Only through proper channel submitted articles via Open Journal System (OJS) will be entertained.

ORIENTS SOCIAL RESEARCH CONSULTANCY (OSRC) & Journal of Development and Social Sciences (JDSS) adheres to Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International License. The authors submitting and publishing in JDSS agree to the copyright policy under creative common license 4.0 (Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International license). Under this license, the authors published in JDSS retain the copyright including publishing rights of their scholarly work and agree to let others remix, tweak, and build upon their work non-commercially. All other authors using the content of JDSS are required to cite author(s) and publisher in their work. Therefore, ORIENTS SOCIAL RESEARCH CONSULTANCY (OSRC) & Journal of Development and Social Sciences (JDSS) follow an Open Access Policy for copyright and licensing.

Plagiarism Guidelines

Currently, JDSS is following the HEC (Pakistan) policies regarding Turnitin Originality Report and Plagiarism.
Zero tolerance Policy on Plagiarism issue. JDSS aims for original script having 10 or below than 10% Turnitin Originality Report.
HEC relevant Web links:

http://hec.gov.pk/english/services/faculty/Plagiarism/Pages/default.aspx

How to Interpret Originality Report (Guidelines)

Guidelines on 'Ethics of Using Turnitin' for Administrators

Guidelines on 'Ethics of Using Turnitin' for Instructors

HEC Plagiarism Policy

Plagiarism Little Book